Dense Fog, Merced/Sw Madera/W Fresno
- When
- May 7, 6:00 AM PST to 7:00 AM PST
- Where
- Merced/Sw Madera/W Fresno forecast zone
Dense Fog in California, May 7, 1998
The moist conditions caused by late and near record rains this spring gave way to infrequent dense fog formation in the month of May in the Central and north portions of the Southern San Joaquin Valley. Visibilities dropped to less than 300 feet in west Merced County (near State Highway 152 and Interstate Highway-5) by 0600 PST with other reports of dense fog in Fresno and Kings Counties.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS HNX wrote it up.
The moist conditions caused by late and near record rains this spring gave way to infrequent dense fog formation in the month of May in the Central and north portions of the Southern San Joaquin Valley. Visibilities dropped to less than 300 feet in west Merced County (near State Highway 152 and Interstate Highway-5) by 0600 PST with other reports of dense fog in Fresno and Kings Counties.
Event by event
2 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
Dense Fog, Kings/W Tulare/Nw Kern
- When
- May 7, 6:00 AM PST to 7:00 AM PST
- Where
- Kings/W Tulare/Nw Kern forecast zone
What these are
- Dense Fog
- Fog reducing visibility to a quarter mile or less, filed where it caused accidents or disruption.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 7, 1998
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- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Virginia, May 7, 1998
- Tornado in Tennessee, May 7, 1998
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- Tornado in Tennessee, May 7, 1998
- Tornado in North Carolina, May 7, 1998
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5636132, 5636133.