1 lightning, 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 Mar 14, 2:45 PM PST, 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...AMENDED AVIATION SECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA
245 PM PST TUE MAR 14 2006
.SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...WILL OPT TO LET
THE SNOW ADVISORY EXPIRE AT 1600 PST. RADAR AND SATELLITE TRENDS ARE
INDICATING THE STRATIFORM PRECIP WILL CEASE OVER ZONE 96 AROUND THE
EXPIRATION TIME...AT WHICH TIME, PRECIP WILL FALL IN THE FORM OF
SNOW SHOWERS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING, WITH ONLY MINOR
ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS. FOR THE SJV, HAVE DECIDED TO ADD A SLT CHC
OF THUNDER FOR EARLY THIS EVENING...PRIMARILY FOR LOCATIONS NORTH OF
FRESNO COUNTY. INSTABILITY AND DYNAMICS ARE PLENTIFUL TO OUR NORTH,
AS EVIDENT BY THE NUMEROUS SVR T-STORM WARNINGS ISSUED TODAY BY OUR
NEIGHBORING OFFICE IN SACRAMENTO. NOT EXPECTING ANYTHING COMPARABLE
TO THAT, BUT A STRAY THUNDERSTORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT OVER THE NEXT
SEVERAL HOURS AS A POTENT VORT MAX...CURRENTLY LOCATED ABOUT 245
MILES WEST OF THE BAY AREA...DROPS INTO CENTRAL CA.
OTHERWISE...SHOWERS WILL TAPER OFF OVERNIGHT...EXCEPT OVER THE KERN
MOUNTAINS, WHERE UPSLOPE FLOW WILL KEEP THE THREAT OF SHOWERS GOING
THROUGH EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. ANOTHER BYPRODUCT OF THE UPSLOPE
FLOW WILL BE EXTENSIVE LOW CLOUD COVER OVER THE SOUTH VALLEY, TULARE
CO FOOTHILLS, AND KERN MOUNTAINS. THESE CLOUDS ARE EXPECTED TO
PERSIST THROUGH TOMORROW MORNING...BUT COULD STICK AROUND EVEN
LONGER. ELSEWHERE, TOMORROW IS SHAPING UP TO BE A RELATIVELY
PLEASANT DAY WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES...THOUGH TEMPERATURES WILL
REMAIN BELOW NORMAL.
MID-LEVEL MOISTURE INCREASES THURSDAY AHEAD OF THE NEXT SHORTWAVE
DISTURBANCE. THE DEEPER MOISTURE WILL REMAIN NORTH OF OUR CWA, SO
HAVE KEPT THE FORECAST DRY, SAVE FOR A SLIGHT CHC OF SNOW OVER
THE SIERRA. TEMPERATURES WILL FINALLY WARM TO NEAR NORMAL, AFTER
ABOUT A 10 DAY STRETCH BELOW. THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH DEEPENS OVER
CALIFORNIA THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY, BRINGING ANOTHER ROUND OF
COOLER AND UNSETTLED WEATHER BACK TO THE AREA. MOISTURE ASSOCIATED
WITH THE DISTURBANCE LOOKS PRETTY MEAGER, SO NOT EXPECTING A LOT OF
RAIN/SNOW TO ACCOMPANY IT AT THIS TIME.
.LONG TERM...FOR FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS
ARE GENERALLY IN GOOD AGREEMENT THRU THE PERIOD AND BRING 50H LOW
INTO NRN CA FRI NIGHT. THE GFS AND CANADIAN GLOBAL TRACK THIS FEATURE
AS AN INSIDE SLIDER AND POSITION THIS LOW OVER THE GREAT BASIN THIS
WEEKEND. NONETHELESS...BASED ON THE PROXIMITY OF THIS LOW AND THE
DEEP AMPLITUDE OF THE ASSOCIATED TROF...THE WEATHER PATTERN OVER THE
CENTRAL CA INTERIOR APPEARS AS THOUGH IT WILL REMAIN SHOWERY AND
UNSETTLED THRU SATURDAY AND BE FOLLOWED BY A DRYING TREND SUNDAY.
THE NOGAPS AND ECM SOLNS ARE TRACKING THIS LOW FARTHER WEST AND SOUTH
THAN THE OTHER MODELS AND SUGGEST BACKWASH CLOUDS AND PRECIP LINGER
OVER MUCH OF THE CWA THRU AT LEAST SUNDAY EVENING. ALL OF THE MODELS
COME INTO BETTER AGREEMENT LATE IN THE PERIOD AND FORECAST EPAC RIDGE
TO BUILD INTO CA AFTER THE WEEKEND. MONDAY AND TUESDAY WILL BE DRY
WITH TEMPS NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL FOR A CHANGE.
&&
.AVIATION...IFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE SIERNEV FTHLS AND
MTNS TONIGHT DUE TO LOW CEILINGS AND PRECIPITATION BUT IMPROVE TO
VFR BY 18Z WED. IFR TO LOCAL LIFR CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE
NORTH AND WEST FACING SLOPES OF THE TEHACHAPI MTNS AFTER MIDNIGHT
AND PERSIST THROUGH AT LEAST 18Z WED WITH LOW CEILINGS AND SPOTTY
LIGHT PRECIP. VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ELSEWHERE THROUGH 00Z THU
EXCEPT FOR LOCAL MVFR IN EVENING SHOWERS IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY.
FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO TAFS FOR KMCE...KFAT AND KBFL.
&&
.HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...SNOW ADVISORY FOR THE SOUTHERN
SIERRA NEVADA...FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON...THROUGH 4 PM.
&&
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/
MYERS/DURFEEHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 432 AM PST TUE MAR 14 2006 CAZ096-151235- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- 432 AM PST TUE MAR 14 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON. .DAY ONE...TODAY A SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE /WWUS46 KHNX... SFOWSWHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY 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>095-097>099-151235- 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-TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY- SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 432 AM PST TUE MAR 14 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY...THE SIERRA NEVADA FOOTHILLS...THE TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS...AND THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERT. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY 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. DUDLEY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A thunderstorm was reported at Meadows Field during the middle of the afternoon on the 14th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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