1 hail, 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 Aug 15, 1:00 PM PST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 200 PM PDT MON AUG 15 2005 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...WV LOOP INDICATING CENTER OF UPPER CUTOFF LOW CENTER JUST SOUTH OF OUR CWFA. MOISTURE ROTATING AROUND THIS LOW HAS BROUGHT SIGNIFICANT CLOUD COVER TO OUR AREA TODAY WHICH HAS ALSO KEPT TEMPS WELL BELOW GUIDANCE. SKIES DID CLEAR OUT SOME IN KERN COUNTY WHICH HAS ALLOWED FOR ENOUGH SURFACE HEATING FOR SOME THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTH END OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. NORTH OF KERN COUNTY THE PRECIPITATION HAS BEEN GENERALLY LIGHT WITH MOST AREAS RECEIVING A TRACE TO A FEW HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH OF RAINFALL WHICH IS FAIRLY TYPICAL FOR AN AUGUST PRECIPITATION EVENT IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND SOUTHERN SIERRA FOOTHILLS. WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION ISOLATED CONVECTION OVER THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY THROUGH THIS EVENING SINCE MUCH OF THE PRECIPITATION IS HAVING DIFFICULTY REACHING THE SURFACE ALTHOUGH KHNX 88D IS SHOWING FAIRLY IMPRESSIVE COVERAGE FROM FRESNO COUNTY NORTHWARD. THE 12Z NAM-12 IS ANTICIPATING CAPES OF 1200 TO 1600 J/KG AND LI/S BETWEEN -3 TO -6 EARLY THIS EVENING OVER THE KERN MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS WHERE SKIES CLEARED OUT FOR SOME TIME TODAY. THUS...THIS WILL BE THE MAIN AREA OF CONCERN FOR STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL AND AND LOCALLY STRONG WIND GUSTS THIS EVENING. BOTH THE NAM AND GFS ARE NOW INDICATING THE UPPER LOW LIFTS NORTHEAST ACROSS THE CENTRAL CA INTERIOR TONIGHT AND INTO THE GREAT BASIN ON TUESDAY. ALTHOUGH THE GFS (THE CONSENSUAL PREFERRED MODEL TODAY AS PER HPC DISCUSSION) LEAVES SOME ENERGY FROM THIS UPPER LOW BEHIND OVER SOCAL THROUGH MID WEEK...MOST OF THE MOISTURE WILL DEPART THE AREA WITH THE MAIN SYSTEM ON TUESDAY. WITH RESIDUAL MOISTURE AND AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND KERN DESERTS ON TUESDAY...WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. BY WEDNESDAY...WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL PUSH THE MAJORITY OF THE MID/UPPER MOISTURE EAST OF THE SIERRA CREST. WILL CONTINUE MENTION OF ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING T-STORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA ON WEDNESDAY THEN DRY ALL AREA THURSDAY AS A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT SETS IN. TEMPERATURES WILL WARM BACK UP TO SEASONAL NORMALS BY WEDNESDAY AS HEIGHTS AND DIURNAL THICKNESSES RISE AND THE ATMOSPHERE DRIES OUT. .LONG TERM...FOR THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...REMNANTS OF UPPER TROUGH WILL LIFT NE THURS NIGHT WITH HEIGHTS RECOVERING THRU THE WEEKEND AS RIDGE REBUILDS OVER THE CWA. AS UPPER HIGH STRENGTHENS... 850 MB TEMPS WILL RISE BACK INTO THE MID-UPPER 20S SUPPORTING A SLOW WARMING TREND ACROSS THE CWA WITH NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. WITH CONTD DRYING OF MID-LEVELS THURS NGT AND FRI... CONVECTIVE THREAT SHOULD REMAIN MINIMAL OVER THE SOUTHERN SIERRA AND WILL MAINTAIN ZERO POPS THRU THE WEEKEND. && .AVIATION...BREAKS IN OVERCAST WILL ALLOW WIDELY SCTD DEEPER CONVECTION TO DEVELOP WITH SURFACE HEATING...MAINLY SOUTH OF KVIS WHERE ISOLD CEILINGS OF 4-5K FEET AND -TSRA WILL BE POSSIBLE THRU 03Z. ELSEWHERE...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH AT LEAST 18Z TUESDAY. REFER TO TAFS AT KMCE...KFAT...AND KBFL FOR DETAILS. && .HNX...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/ DS/JSN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED WORDING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 500 AM PDT MON AUG 15 2005 CAZ089>099-161200- 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- 500 AM PDT MON AUG 15 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM PUSHING THROUGH THE REGION WILL GENERATE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA... INCLUDING THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. COVERAGE AND INTENSITY IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON...WHEN DAYTIME HEATING IS MAXIMIZED. THE STRONGEST STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS... GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. A REPEAT NOCTURNAL THUNDERSTORM EVENT IS NOT EXPECTED AGAIN FOR THE VALLEY TONIGHT. LOOK FOR A DECREASE IN THE ACTIVITY DURING THE LATE EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE SIERRA NEVADA AND KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS THROUGH THURSDAY. NO ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED FOR THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. MYERS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
In the vicinity of Ridgecrest local meso-net weather stations reported thunderstorm gusts to 45 MPH while radar indicated elevated core reflectivities of 70-75 dBz. Hail size varied from 1/2" to just over 3/4" in the Ridgecrest area.
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