A frontal system moving across the Southern San Joaquin Valley brought brief periods of heavy rain to western Kern County in the early morning hours of the 19th. Minor flooding was reported across State Highway 166 near Taft.
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A frontal system moving across the Southern San Joaquin Valley brought brief periods of heavy rain to western Kern County in the early morning hours of the 19th. Minor flooding was reported across State Highway 166 near Taft.
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 Feb 18, 9:12 PM PST, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 912 PM PST SUN FEB 18 2007 .UPDATE... WV IMAGERY INDICATED LOW CENTER IS GETTING BETTER ORGANIZED AND RAIN SHIELD HAS SPREAD INTO THE SRN SJV. OROGRAPHIC LIFT HAS EVEN INDUCED SOME THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AND BEST DIFLUENCE REMAINS JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE CLOSED LOW. DEFORMATION ZONE HAS PRODUCED SCT SHOWERS OVER THE SRN PORTION OF THE VALLEY AND IS NOT MOVING VERY MUCH AS THE UPPER LOW SLIDES TO OUR SE. CLEARING SKIES HAVE OCCURRED ACROSS THE NRN SJV AND HAVE REMOVED POPS FOR THAT AREA IN THE ZONES. AS THE LOW IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SE OF THE FA...THE WESTERN EXTENT OF THE MOISTURE IS STILL FORECAST TO SPREAD INTO THE DESERT LATER TONIGHT AND THROUGH THE DAY ON MONDAY. HAVE KEPT IN POPS OVER THE SRN PORTION OF THE SJV AND THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS FOR MONDAY WITH CONTINUED LIGHT QPF PER THE HAS FORECAST. SNOW FALL LEVELS ARE ABOVE 7000 FEET RIGHT NOW ACCORDING TO DATA FROM THE AREA RAWS SITES AND IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN ABOVE 6500 TOMORROW OVER THE TULARE AND THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS. THE LOW IS EXPECTED TO MOVE OUT BY TUESDAY AND ANOTHER DEEPENING TROUGH WILL MOVE ON SHORE WED WITH AN INCREASE IN CLOUDS AND A CHANCE OF RAIN AND HIGH MOUNTAIN SNOW FOR WED THROUGH FRIDAY WITH CLEARING FOR NEXT WEEKEND. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 157 PM PST SUN FEB 18 2007/ SHORT TERM...RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW A LARGE SHIELD OF VIRGA (RAIN ALOFT) WHILE ONE OR TWO THIN LINES OF SPRINKLES OR VERY LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS ARE ORIENTED SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST. THUS FAR, ONLY A COUPLE OF SIERRA STATIONS HAVE REPORTED ANY PRECIPITATION AND IN THE LOWER ELEVATIONS ONLY FRESNO HAS REPORTED ANY LIGHT RAIN AS OF 100 PM PST. THIS AFTERNOONS WEATHER PATTERN IS A RATHER COMPLEX INTERACTION BETWEEN ABUNDANT MID AND HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE BEING PUMPED NORTHWARD FROM A LOW NOW MOVING INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND A VERY WEAK FRONTAL SYSTEM NOW MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL COAST. DRY AIR IS NOTED ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY FOLLOWING THE FRONT AND THIS SHOULD OVER SPREAD THE NORTH LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. ALBEIT LIGHT, FORECAST MODELS AGREE THAT THE CURRENT DRY LOW CIRCULATION NOW WELL WEST OF POINT CONCEPTION WILL TRACK ACROSS THE SAN DIEGO AREA TOMORROW AND A PRECIPITATION SHIELD WILL ACCOMPANY IT. I HAVE BASED THE POP GRIDS ON THIS SCENARIO LIMITING TONIGHTS AND MONDAYS PRECIPITATION CHANCES TO THE SOUTH. BY MONDAY EVENING THE LOW IS PROGGED TO PUSH INTO SOUTHWEST ARIZONA AND CLEARING SKIES SHOULD ARRIVE. RIDGING IS THEN EXPECTED ON TUESDAY AND TUESDAY EVENING BEFORE THE NEXT INCOMING FRONTAL SYSTEM BEGINS TO MOVE INTO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. IT DOESNT LOOK VERY PROMISING FOR PRECIPITATION TO REACH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA UNTIL WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THE GRIDS ARE TRENDED IN THIS MANNER. LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...GFS MODEL DRIVES ONE FRONTAL BAND INTO AND ACROSS CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY AND THEN FOLLOWS UP WITH A POTENTIALLY DEEPER AND STRONGER TROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. THIS SOLUTION IS A DEPARTURE FROM YESTERDAYS SINGLE TROUGH AND RIDGING SOLUTION FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. THE ECMWF MODEL AGREES THAT ON FRIDAY A COLD AND CLOSED LOW WILL DEVELOP OVER CALIFORNIA THUS I WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS AND SNOW LEVELS FALLING TO LESS THAN 3000 FEET BY FRIDAY. FORECAST MODELS HAVE A TENDENCY TO OVER FORECAST THE COLD AIR THIS FAR INTO THE FUTURE AND BY THE TIME THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY MOVES INTO THE REGION, SNOW LEVELS MAY END UP CONSIDERABLY HIGHER. RIDGING AND A DRYING NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT ARE WELL AGREED UPON BY THE GFS AND ECMWF MODELS FOR NEXT SATURDAY HOWEVER BY SUNDAY THE GFS DEVELOPS A WEAK SHORTWAVE OVER NORTHWEST NEVADA. WILL OPT TO KEEP SUNDAY DRY AT THIS TIME. && AVIATION...FOR INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA...VFR/MVFR CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES WITH LOCAL IFR CONDITIONS IN RAIN AND MIST FOR THE NEXT 12 HOURS. IMPROVING CONDITIONS DURING THE DAY ON MONDAY. && AIR QUALITY ISSUES... NONE && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && JDB/DUDLEY/MOLINA WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain occurred in the town of Taft, where 1.71 inches of rain was measured by both the Taft cooperative observer and a mesonet station near Tehachapi.
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