1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 28, 8:30 AM PST, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 930 AM PDT THU APR 28 2005 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR... SATELLITE PICTURES SHOW AN UPPER LEVEL LOW JUST OFF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST THIS MORNING. SOME SHOWERS CONTINUE ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE VALLEY AND SIERRA AS AN AREA OF UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE LIFTS NORTH. WEATHER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES RANGED FROM WIDESPREAD AMOUNTS OF 1-2 TENTHS OF AN INCH IN THE VALLEY WITH HEAVIER AMOUNTS OVER THE COASTAL RANGES AND WEST SIDE OF THE VALLEY. WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORT SNOW LEVEL AROUND 6000 FEET WITH A COUPLE OF INCHES OF SNOW FALLING OVERNIGHT. THE MORNING SOUNDINGS INDICATE DEEPER MOISTURE TOWARDS THE NORTH SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND DRIER AIR ALOFT PUSHING OVER THE SOUTH VALLEY AND KERN COUNTY AREA. VANDENBERG SOUNDING ALSO SHOWS STRONG UPPER LEVEL JET CROSSING THE REGION. MODELS INDICATE A DIMINISHING TREND FOR FOR PRECIPITATION FOR THE AFTERNOON WITH WEAKER DYNAMICS. THINK SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON. WITH COLDER AIR ALOFT FILTERING IN SOME CLEARING...DIURNAL HEATING TOWARDS THE SOUTH...WILL LEAD TO HIGHER CAPES AND STEEPER LAPSE RATES. EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE TEHACHAPI MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE ETA MODEL SHOWS A 10MB PRESSURE GRADIENTS ACROSS SOUTH CALIFORNIA ALIGNING WITH A 120KT WEST UPPER JET. DO NOT SEE ANY NEED FOR A MORNING ZONE UPDATE. .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...STG 130 KT JET CONTS TO UNDERCUT UPPER LOW CENTERED NEAR 36N/125W AT 10Z. SHOWERS HAVE OVERSPREAD MUCH OF THE CWA WITH BACK EDGE OF STEADIER PRECIP NOW LIFTING NE INTO WESTERN ZONES. VERY SIMILAR PROJECTIONS ON MODEL GUIDANCE INDICATING JET SHIFTING INLAND NEAR KERN COUNTY AROUND 18Z ...CONTG EAST WITH CWA THEN FALLING UNDER RFQ BY 00Z. HEAVIEST PRECIP SHOULD OCCUR THRU APPROX 15Z...WITH ORGANIZED UVM DECREASING THRU THE AFTN. LESS INSTABILITY IS PROJECTED ON PROGS FOR THIS AFTN THAN PREVIOUS MODEL RUNS...HOWEVER WILL MAINTAIN POTENTIAL FOR ISOLDTHUNDER WITH GIVEN COLD POOL ALOFT AND MODERATE MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES. PROXIMITY OF UPPER JET WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS IN THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS/DESERTS AS LAPSE RATES AIDE IN MIXING STRONGER WINDS TO THE LOWER ELEVS...AND WILL NEED TO MONITOR FOR POSSIBLE WIND ADVISORIES TODAY. SHORTWAVE RIDGING WILL PROVIDE A MORE STABLE PATTERN THRUT THE CWA LATER TONIGHT AND FRIDAY BEFORE ANOTHER WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH APPROACHES SATURDAY. WITH PROGS SHOWING WAVE WEAKENING AS IT APPROACHES THE WEST COAST...ATTM WILL KEEP POPS LOW AND AND CONFIED TO THE HIER ELEVS OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA. .LONG TERM....LONG TERM...FOR SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY... MODELS IN BASIC AGREEMENT IN BRINGING A WEAK SHORTWAVE THROUGH THE REGION SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY THEN LEAVING WEAK TROUGHINESS OVER THE REGION MONDAY. DO NOT SEE ANYTHING TO INDICATE ANYTHING MORE THAN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS SUNDAY AND MONDAY. WEAK SHORTWAVE RIDGING SEEN FOR TUESDAY...WITH JUST A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS IN THE SIERRA. ANOTHER WEAK TROUGH INDICATED FOR WEDNESDAY...BUT AGAIN DO NOT SEE ANYTHING MORE THAN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE SIERRA. TEMPS THRU THE PERIOD TO REMAIN SLIGHTLY BELOW SEASONAL NORMS. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/ MV/JSN/BEAN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 605 AM PDT THU APR 28 2005 CAZ089>094-291200- 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- 605 AM PDT THU APR 28 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY...AND THE SIERRA NEVADA FOOTHILLS. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY 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. CAZ095>099-291200- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS-SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY- SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 605 AM PDT THU APR 28 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA... THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS...THE INDIAN WELLS VALLEY...AND THE SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. TLM/JSN
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CA
206 PM PDT THU APR 28 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0151 PM HAIL 2 NW HANFORD 36.35N 119.67W
04/28/2005 0.75 INCH KINGS CA NWS EMPLOYEE
0153 PM HAIL LEMOORE 36.30N 119.79W
04/28/2005 0.75 INCH KINGS CA TRAINED SPOTTER
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SANGERThe San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:29 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Several reports from storm chasers and CHP were received in regard to this funnel cloud.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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