1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Apr 24, 8:20 AM PST, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 920 AM PDT SUN APR 24 2005 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...STRONGER VORT MAX THAT MOVED INLAND OVER SOCAL EARLY THIS MORNING WAS LIFTING NE INTO SRN UT...HOWEVER UPPER TROUGH REMAINS OVER THE CWA AS ANOTHER SHORTWAVE MOVES INTO NORCAL WITH AXIS EXTENDING SOUTH INTO NORTHERN ZONES. ALTHOUGH PRECIP COVERAGE IN THE WAKE OF FIRST VORT HAS DECREASED CONSIDERABLY SINCE 12Z...WILL MAINTAIN POTENTIAL FOR ISOLD SHOWERS AS NW FLOW HAS BEGUN TO STRENGTHEN IN THE WAKE OF VORT THAT CROSSED SOCAL AND MAY PRODUCE UPSLOPE SHOWERS TODAY. POSITIVE VORTICITY EXTENDING SOUTH FROM NORCAL VORT MAY ALSO PRODUCE A FEW SHOWERS OVER NORTHERN ZONES AND WILL MAINTAIN IN GRIDS. TIMING OF VORT SHOULD ALLOW TROUGH AXIS TO SHIFT EAST OF THE SIERRA AROUND 00Z WITH SHORTWAVE RIDGING BUILDING OVER THE CWA OVERNIGHT. HAVE UPDATED GRIDS TO ADJUST SNOW LEVELS SLIGHTLY BASED ON 12Z RAOBS AND SURFACE OBS...AND TO ALLOW SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY TO EXPIRE. HAVE ALSO INCREASED CLOUD COVER FOR FAVORED UPSLOPE AREAS OF THE SIERRA FOOTHILLS AND KERN MTNS FOR TODAY AND ADJUSTED A FEW TEMPERATURES DOWNWARD SLIGHTLY WITH INCREASED CLOUD COVER ANTICIPATED. REMAINDER OF GRID PACKAGE REMAINS ON TRACK WITH NO OTHER UPDATES ANTICIPATED ATTM. .LONG TERM...FOR TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS TIMING THE ONSET OF THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LONG TERM. ALL MODELS EXCEPT THE GFS TIME THE PRECIP INTO THE DISTRICT AFTER 12Z ON WEDNESDAY. WHILE THE GFS DOES NOT INDICATE WIDESPREAD PRECIP OVER THE DISTRICT AT 12Z ON WEDNESDAY...ITS DOES SHOW THE ONE ONE-HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH LINE ALONG THE COASTAL RANGE. THEREFORE...WILL MAINTAIN THE CURRENT WORDING IN THE FORECAST AND ALLOW THE RETURN OF THE WET WEATHER OVER INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA TO START AROUND DAY-BREAK. IN ADDITION...MODELS CONTINUE TO PLACE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA UNDER THE LEFT FRONT QUAD OF A +100KT JET MAX...WITH GOOD DIFFLUENCE ALOFT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON TO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON OVER THE CWFA. THEREFORE...WILL SEE DYNAMICS COME INTO PHASE TO PROVIDE GOOD LIFT DURING THE TIME IN QUESTION. AFTERWARD...THE THURSDAY TIME FRAME WILL SEE A CONTINUATION OF UNSETTLED CONDITIONS AS MODELS SHOW THE VORT MAX APPROACHING AND PUSHING THROUGH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. THE POTENTIAL FOR PRECIP WILL PEAK OUT DURING THIS TIME FRAME BEFORE TAPERING OFF TOWARD THE WEEKEND. BY FRIDAY...WILL ALLOW THE POTENTIAL FOR PRECIP TO START A DECREASING TREND AS LINGERING SHOWERS MAY UNDER CYCLONIC FLOW. MODELS THEN SHIFT THE UPPER LOW EAST ON SATURDAY WITH RIDGING RETURNING TO THE WEST. WILL MAINTAIN A DRY FORECAST FOR SATURDAY. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/ JSN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 900 AM PDT SUN APR 24 2005 CAZ089>099-251200- WEST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-EAST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- SOUTHWESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- MARIPOSA MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS-TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS-SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY- SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 900 AM PDT SUN APR 24 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. JSN
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
As reported by residents at the north end of Ridgecrest, CA, approximately 30-seconds of a strong gust of wind caused minor damage the afternoon of the 24th. Fences were downed and roof shingles were blown off by what was likely a mountain wave rotor touchdown (based on photographic evidence).
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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