1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Hanford, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 13, 3:00 PM PST, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 300 PM PST THU FEB 13 2003 CURRENT HNX 88D SHOWS SCATTERED CONVECTIVE SHOWERS DEVELOPING IN THE VALLEY...WITH NUMEROUS SHOWERS ERUPTING ALONG THE SPINE OF THE SIERRA. VALLEY TEMPERATURES AT MID AFTERNOON WERE WELL IN THE 60S...AND WITH SURFACE DEWPOINTS IN THE MID TO UPPER 50S...IT FELT MUCH LIKE A CENTRAL PLAINS SPRING DAY. MESOETA/RUC PROGS HOLD ON TO A BIT OF WEAK H7 OMEGA BEFORE MAIN TROUGH AXIS PUSHES THROUGH THE DISTRICT LATE TONIGHT. THUS... WITH LITTLE IN THE WAY OF SYNOPTIC DYNAMICS...SCATTERED VALLEY PRECIP SHOULD TREND DOWNWARD AFTER SUNSET AS THE MAIN DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE INSTABILITY SETS. MESOETA PROGS CONTINUE TO SHOW NEGATIVE SURFACE LI/S DEVELOPING TOMORROW WITH ACCOMPANYING SURFACE BASED CAPES TO AROUND 300 J/KG OVER THE SIERRA CREST. SOME MID LEVEL MOISTURE IS PROGGED TO HANG AROUND AS WELL. WITH NORTHERLY H7 WINDS AND MID LEVEL SUBSIDENCE IN THE WAKE OF THE TROUGH PASSAGE...THINK VALLEY SXNS WILL DRY OUT AND SEE CONSIDERABLE SUN...BUT WITH OROGRAPHICS THE KERN MOUNTAINS/NORTH FACING SLOPES OF THE SIERRA MAY SEE SOME ISOLATED -SHRA WITH THE AFTERNOON HEATING AND HAVE OPTED TO RETAIN SOME POPS. FOR FRIDAY NIGHT...RESIDUAL MID LEVEL MOISTURE MOVES WELL EAST AND WITH RIDGING STILL IN PLACE...WILL LIKELY SEE SOME VALLEY FOG FORMATION FRIDAY NIGHT GIVEN MOIST SURFACE AND LIGHT WINDS. MODELS DEPICT HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE STREAMING IN FROM THE WEST LATE FRIDAY NIGHT/EARLY SATURDAY...WITH MORE SIGNIFICANT AC COMING INTO PLAY BY LATE MORNING SATURDAY. GFS RUNS HAVE BEEN MUCH FASTER THAN ITS ETA COUNTERPART IN BRINGING IN THIS STORM. WILL FAVOR GFS DUE TO THIS CONSISTENCY AND THE BELIEF THAT SHORTWAVE RIDGING WILL NOT BE TOO DIFFICULT TO PENETRATE. SOME SHOWERS MAY BREAK OUT ACROSS THE FAR NW PORTIONS OF THE DISTRICT BY AFTERNOON...BUT WITH LOW LEVEL SOUTHERLY COMPONENT MAX TEMPS SHOULD REMAIN QUITE MILD. PRECIPITATION SHOULD OVERSPREAD THE ENTIRE CWFA BY THE EVENING HOURS...BUT THE TROUGH IS QUICK TO EXIT SUNDAY...SO WILL DECREASE SKY COVER AND POPS WEST TO EAST DURING THE DAY. BURGER FOR THE TIME FRAME MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...HAVE LOW CONFIDENCE IN THE EXTENDED PROGS THIS PERIOD. LATEST 12Z GFS IN THE MOST PROGRESSIVE MODEL AND BRINGS AN UPPER LEVEL THROUGH INTO CALIFORNIA MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...WHILE THE 00Z GFS RUN INDICATED 500MB HEIGHTS RISING ALONG THE WEST COAST. THE EURO IS SIMILAR TO THE 00Z GFS BUT BRINGS THE UPPER THROUGH ABOUT A HALF DAY EARLIER ON TUESDAY NIGHT. THE UPPER THROUGH AXIS PUSHES THROUGH THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH NW FLOW DEVELOPING OVER THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY THURSDAY. IN COORDINATION WITH NEIGHBORING OFFICES WILL INTRODUCE LOW POPS ESPECIALLY TOWARDS THE NORTHERN CWFA LATE TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. MV .HNX...NONE.
CAZ089>099-141345- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 530 AM PST THU FEB 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY RAIN SHOWERS ARE LIKELY THIS MORNING...THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:04 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Several reports of funnel cloud sitings were made in and around the west valley town of Firebaugh.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in California, February 2003
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