Hail, Fresno
- When
- March 10, 4:00 PM PST to 4:17 PM PST
- Where
- Fresno County, 3 mi NE of Westhaven
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.917, -119.450
Hail in California, March 10, 2006
Associated with the severe thunderstorms was locally heavy rain. 48" of rain in about an hour that lead to extensive street flooding.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Events
- 4
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.
Associated with the severe thunderstorms was locally heavy rain. Lemoore, in Kings County, received 0.48" of rain in about an hour that lead to extensive street flooding. A late afternoon thunderstorm along Highway 41 just north of the Fresno/Madera County Line brought small hail and icy rain onto the roadway as well as impacting crops in the vicinity.
What forecasters said that day
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 Mar 10, 2:40 PM PST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 2:40 PM PST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
240 PM PST FRI MAR 10 2006
.SHORT TERM...DEEP COLD UPPER TROUGH IS NOW BECOMING WELL ENTRENCHED
INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AS OBSERVED ON SATELLITE AS COLD AIR
CUMULUS SPREADS BEYOND THE DISTRICT. THIS TROUGH WILL CONTINUE
FILTER COLD AIR INTO THE DISTRICT THIS AFTERNOON AND PRODUCE MORE
UNSETTLED WEATHER. SHORT RANGE MODELS STILL INDICATING 700MB TEMP/S
FROM MINUS 13 TO 15 DEG-C OVER THE AREA ALONG WITH 500MB TEMP/S DOWN
TO MINUS 30 DEG-C. THESE TEMP/S TRANSLATE IN SNOW LEVELS DOWN TO
1000 TO 1500 FEET OVERNIGHT. WHILE THE COLDER AND MORE UNSTABLE
AIRMASS STILL RESIDES OVER NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...MODEL CAPE AND LI
VALUES INDICATE THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS AS FAR SOUTH AS THE
KINGS/TULARE AND KERN COUNTY LINE AND ALONG THE FOOTHILLS. THESE
CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS BEFORE FINALLY
DIMINISHING OVERNIGHT. WILL ALLOW THE WINTER STORM WARNING TO REMAIN
IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY AS ANOTHER IMPULSE ENTERS THE REGION FOR
ADDITIONAL PRECIP OVERNIGHT AND INTO TOMORROW. SOME LOCATIONS ACROSS
THE MOUNTAINS HAVE REPORTED CONSIDERABLE AMOUNTS OF SNOW SO FAR
TODAY WITH AS MUCH AS ONE MORE FOOT OF SNOW EXPECTED OVER THE HIGH
COUNTRY OF THE SIERRA NEVADA THROUGH SATURDAY. ON SATURDAY MORE
PRECIP WILL BE EXPECTED AS SHOWERS CONTINUE WITH A CONTINUED THREAT
OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. MODELS SHOW ANOTHER IMPULSE STARTING TO
ROTATE THROUGH THE TROUGH OVERNIGHT...WITH SUFFICIENT AVAILABLE
MOISTURE AND ASSOCIATED INSTABILITY TO PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS
SHOWERS ACROSS THE DISTRICT ON SATURDAY.
BY SUNDAY AND MONDAY...THE UPPER TROUGH IS PROGGED TO MOVE GRADUALLY
EAST NEAR THE START OF THE WORK WEEK WITH PRECIPITATION CHANCES
TAPERING OFF...THOUGH STILL EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS THE
DISTRICT SUNDAY...WITH SNOW LEVELS CONTINUING BELOW 1500 FEET.
BECAUSE OF THE UNSEASONABLY COLD SYSTEM...STILL LOOKING FOR THE
POSSIBILITY OF SOME SNOW MIXING WITH THE RAIN IN THE VALLEY
SATURDAY...ALONG WITH POSSIBLE FREEZING TEMPERATURES SUNDAY MORNING.
MODELS STILL SHOWING POSSIBLE SHORT WAVE RIDGING PUSHING THROUGH ON
MONDAY. THEREFORE...WILL STILL MAINTAIN A BRIEF BREAK IN THE
UNSETTLED CONDITIONS BEFORE RAIN AND SNOW RETURNS TO CENTRAL
CALIFORNIA DURING THE LONG TERM PERIODS.
.LONG TERM...FOR MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...GOOD AGREEMENT
AMONG THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS DURING THE SHORT TERM. DRY WEATHER
WILL SHORT LIVED AS ANOTHER UPPER TROUGH MOVES SOUTH FROM THE
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS TO OFF THE NORTH CALIFORNIA COAST MONDAY NIGHT.
MODELS HAVE TRENDED MORE PROGRESSIVE WITH THIS STORM AND UPPER
ENERGY FROM THIS SYSTEM SWINGS INLAND LATE MONDAY OVER NORTH
CALIFORNIA PUSHING A COLD FRONT AND MOISTURE INTO YOSEMITE AND THE
CENTRAL VALLEY MONDAY NIGHT. THE TROUGH QUICKLY PUSHES SE THROUGH
THE REMAINDER OF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR TUESDAY.
THEREAFTER...LESS CERTAINTY IN THE FORECAST WITH MODELS IN POOR
AGREEMENT. IN GENERAL UPPER CYCLONIC FLOW PERSISTS OVER THE EAST
PACIFIC...THOUGH MAIN ENERGY AND DEEP MOISTURE STAYS NORTH OF 40N
LATITUDE. WILL KEEP SKIES AT PARTLY CLOUDY THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH
SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE NORTHERN THIRD OF FORECAST AREA.
MODELS PROG STEADY WARMING AT 850MB WHICH SHOULD BRING TEMPERATURES
TO NEAR NORMAL AROUND MID WEEK.
&&
.AVIATION...MVFR CEILINGS IN SCT SHRA IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY WITH
LCL IFR CONDITIONS IN TSRA UNTIL 03Z. CEILINGS WILL RESULT IN
MOUNTAIN OBSCURATIONS AND IFR CONDITIONS OVER THE FOOTHILLS AND
MOUNTAINS. FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO TAFS FOR
KMCE...KFAT AND KBFL.
&&
.HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR
THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA NORTH OF KERN COUNTY THROUGH
SATURDAY MORNING.
...SNOW ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR THE
KERN MOUNTAINS THROUGH NOON PST SATURDAY.
&&
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/
MOLINA/MVHazardous weather outlook, Mar 10, 5:00 AM PST, 11 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 500 AM PST FRI MAR 10 2006 CAZ093-094-098-099-111300- MARIPOSA MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS-TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS- INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 500 AM PST FRI MAR 10 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SIERRA NEVADA FOOTHILLS... AND THE KERN COUNTY DESERT. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ095-111300- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 500 AM PST FRI MAR 10 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY A SNOW ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM FRIDAY TO 12 PM PST SATURDAY. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE /WWUS46 KHNX...SFOWSWHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE SNOW ADVISORY WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 12 PM PST SATURDAY. AFTER 12 PM SATURDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ096-097-111300- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON-TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 500 AM PST FRI MAR 10 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO THE KERN COUNTY LINE. .DAY ONE...TODAY THE WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO 12 PM PST SATURDAY. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE /WWUS46 KHNX...SFOWSWHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE WINTER STORM WARNING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 12 PM SATURDAY. AFTER 12 PM SATURDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ089>092-111300- WEST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-EAST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- SOUTHWESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- 500 AM PST FRI MAR 10 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. AFTER SATURDAY EVENING...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. MORSE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 10:00 AM PST, 6 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 1000 AM PST FRI MAR 10 2006 CAZ089>092-110000- WEST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-EAST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- SOUTHWESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- 1000 AM PST FRI MAR 10 2006 ...AN UNUSUALLY COLD WEATHER SYSTEM TO AFFECT THE VALLEY... A WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TODAY...AND WILL LINGER THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE AIRMASS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM IS VERY COLD...AND MAY RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS. A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW IS ALSO POSSIBLE SATURDAY...ESPECIALLY IN HEAVIER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. BECAUSE THE AIRMASS WILL BE UNSEASONABLY COLD...SNOW LEVELS WILL REACH THE VALLEY FLOOR AT TIMES THROUGH SUNDAY. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD ACCUMULATING SNOW IS NOT EXPECTED ON THE VALLEY FLOOR...LOCAL AREAS...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE FOOTHILLS...WILL RECEIVE MEASURABLE SNOW. THERE IS ALSO A REAL THREAT OF FROST AND POSSIBLE FREEZING CONDITIONS ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY MORNINGS. IF SKIES CLEAR DURING THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. TEMPERATURES MAY BOTTOM OUT IN THE UPPER 20S. BY MONDAY AFTERNOON...THE LOW IS PROJECTED TO MOVE EAST OF THE AREA AND TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO WARM UP. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCE...FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS WINTER WEATHER EVENT. CAZ093-094-110000- MARIPOSA MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS-TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS- 1000 AM PST FRI MAR 10 2006 ...AN UNUSUALLY COLD WEATHER SYSTEM TO AFFECT THE FOOTHILLS THIS WEEKEND... A WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TODAY...AND WILL LINGER THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE AIRMASS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM IS VERY COLD...AND MAY RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS. BECAUSE THE AIRMASS WILL BE UNSEASONABLY COLD...SNOW LEVELS WILL LIKELY FALL TO LOWER FOOTHILL ELEVATIONS IN THE 1000 TO 1500 FOOT RANGE OVER THE NORTH. SNOW AMOUNTS UP TO SEVERAL INCHES ARE CERTAINLY POSSIBLE BY LATE SUNDAY. BY MONDAY AFTERNOON...THE LOW IS PROJECTED TO MOVE EAST OF THE AREA AND THE THREAT OF SNOW WILL END. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCE...FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS WINTER WEATHER EVENT. CAZ098-099-110000- INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 1000 AM PST FRI MAR 10 2006 ...AN UNUSUALLY COLD WEATHER SYSTEM TO AFFECT THE KERN DESERT THIS WEEKEND... A WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION BY LATE TODAY...AND WILL LINGER THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE AIRMASS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM IS VERY COLD AND SNOW LEVELS WILL LIKELY FALL TO THE 2000 TO 2500 FOOT RANGE BY SUNDAY MORNING. THE EXACT AMOUNT OF MOISTURE WITH THIS SYSTEM IS QUESTIONABLE...HOWEVER SNOW AMOUNTS UP TO SEVERAL INCHES ARE POSSIBLE BY LATE SUNDAY AT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 2500 FEET. HIGHWAYS WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY SNOW INCLUDE U.S. 395 IN THE RED MOUNTAIN AND RANDSBURG AREA...HIGHWAY 14 FROM MOJAVE TO INYOKERN...AND HIGHWAY 58 NEAR MOJAVE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCE...FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS WINTER WEATHER EVENT. WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/ SANGER
The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 47 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:01 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Kings
- When
- March 10, 4:27 PM PST to 4:35 PM PST
- Where
- Kings County, (Nlc)nas Lemoore
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
- Coordinates
- 36.883, -119.800
Hail, Madera
- When
- March 10, 5:00 PM PST to 5:10 PM PST
- Where
- Madera County, 16 mi ESE of Madera
- Measured
- 0.4 in hail
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 36.333, -119.933
Hail, Tulare
- When
- March 10, 5:04 PM PST to 5:08 PM PST
- Where
- Tulare County, 3 mi NE of Alpaugh
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 36.267, -119.967
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm in Arizona, March 10 to 12, 2006
- Flooding in Indiana, March 10 to 21, 2006
- Winter Storm in California, March 10 to 11, 2006
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, March 10 to 11, 2006
- Strong Wind in Ohio, March 10, 2006
- Wildfire in Oklahoma, March 10, 2006
- Strong Wind in Pennsylvania, March 10, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, March 10, 2006
- High Wind in New Mexico, March 10, 2006
- Winter Weather in California, March 10 to 11, 2006
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, March 10 to 11, 2006
- High Wind in Arizona, March 10, 2006
More
Every storm in California in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in California, March 2006
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: 5496337, 5496338, 5498780, 5498779.