March began with an upper-level low located west of Monterey County. 04 inch) for the first three weeks of the month.
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The episode as NWS HNX wrote it up.
March began with an upper-level low located west of Monterey County. The cyclonic flow around this low drew precipitation northward over the central California interior, and brought Bakersfield its only measurable rain (0.04 inch) for the first three weeks of the month. Fortunately, rainfall amounts over the central and southern San Joaquin Valley were light, as the heavy rains of the preceding three days of February had left the soil saturated and additional heavy rains could have caused flooding. The Southern Sierra Nevada foothills were not as lucky, as a debris flow covered part of Highway 168 near the Four Lane shortly after midnight on March 1st.
With the southerly flow aloft, the low advected warm and unstable subtropical air into the central California interior. Thunderstorms developed over the region on March 2nd, resulting in a funnel cloud that formed near Dos Palos. As the storm moved east during the night of the 2nd-3rd, skies partially cleared. This allowed for radiational cooling, and patchy dense fog developed in the Hanford-Lemoore area with visibilities of 500 feet or less at times. Also in the wake of the storm, a band of low clouds formed along the foothills and valley-facing slopes of the Southern Sierra Nevada, producing light (but measurable) rain during the evening of March 4th.
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 2, 1:04 PM PST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
104 PM PST SUN MAR 2 2014
.SYNOPSIS...
WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE OVER THE REGION...PRODUCING MOSTLY
CLEAR SKIES...WARMING TEMPERATURES AND DRIER WEATHER MONDAY. TWO
WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCES WILL CROSS THE NORTH ON MONDAY NIGHT AND
WEDNESDAY NIGHT BRINGING A SMALL THREAT OF PRECIPITATION TO AREAS
MAINLY NORTH OF FRESNO.
&&
.DISCUSSION...VERY DISORGANIZED WARM FRONTAL SYSTEM MOVING OVER
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA TODAY IS PRODUCING SOME SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS
AND LOTS OF CLOUDS BUT THAT'S ABOUT IT. SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS
THE BACK EDGE OF THE THICKER CLOUDS WILL MOVE INTO THE FORECAST
AREA THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. MINOR RAIN CHANCES WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH MID EVENING THEN MONDAY WILL BE DRY A RIDGING BUILDS IN
FROM THE WEST. FORECAST MODELS THEN BRING A WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH
ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MONDAY NIGHT AND THIS WILL BRING A
THREAT OF SOME PRECIPITATION OVER THE NORTH HOWEVER ANY
PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS WILL BE LIGHT. THE RIDGE THEN BUILDS SOME
DECENT AMPLITUDE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY BEFORE ANOTHER SHORTWAVE
TROUGH PASSES OVER NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND
THURSDAY. THIS SECOND FEATURE APPEARS TO BE AS WEAK AS THE MONDAY
NIGHT SYSTEM WITH LITTLE ANTICIPATED PRECIPITATION.
RIDGING IS THEN WELL AGREED UPON BY THE GFS AND ECMWF MODELS FOR
THE FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY PERIOD WITH DRY AND WARMER WEATHER.
HEIGHTS RISE TO AROUND 5820 METERS AT THE 500 MILLIBAR PRESSURE
LEVEL THUS SOME ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL OCCUR.
&&
.AVIATION...
VFR CONDITIONS ACROSS THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR FOR THE NEXT
24 HOURS.
&&
.AIR QUALITY ISSUES...
NONE.
&&
.CERTAINTY...
THE LEVEL OF CERTAINTY FOR DAYS 1 AND 2 IS MEDIUM.
THE LEVEL OF CERTAINTY FOR DAYS 3 THROUGH 7 IS MEDIUM.
THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AS PART OF A TRIAL PROJECT CONDUCTED
BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD.
CERTAINTY LEVELS INCLUDE LOW...MEDIUM...AND HIGH. PLEASE VISIT
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HNX/CERTAINTY.PHP /ALL LOWER CASE/ FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND/OR TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK.
&&
.CLIMATE...
RECORDS
SITE DATE HI_MAX:YEAR LO_MAX:YEAR HI_MIN:YEAR LO_MIN:YEAR
KFAT 03-02 82:1921 48:1976 57:1986 26:1953
KFAT 03-03 80:1994 45:1976 55:1905 26:1966
KFAT 03-04 84:1929 49:1951 55:1991 30:1966
KBFL 03-02 87:1926 50:1919 57:2009 28:1907
KBFL 03-03 84:1987 47:1976 55:1930 20:1917
KBFL 03-04 88:1929 50:1919 64:1987 28:1907
&&
.HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&
PUBLIC...DUDLEY
AVN/FW...DS
SYNOPSIS...ANDERSEN
WEATHER.GOV/HANFORDHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 604 PM PST SAT MAR 1 2014 CAZ089>094-020315- 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- 604 PM PST SAT MAR 1 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND THE ADJACENT FOOTHILLS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. * STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCE...FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT OR UNUSUAL CONDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. CAZ096-097-020315- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 604 PM PST SAT MAR 1 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. * STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCE...FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT OR UNUSUAL CONDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. CAZ095-020315- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 604 PM PST SAT MAR 1 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. * STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCE...FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT OR UNUSUAL CONDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. CAZ098-099-020315- INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 604 PM PST SAT MAR 1 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY DESERTS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. * STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCE...FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT OR UNUSUAL CONDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. WP
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:25 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained spotter and several public reports of funnel clouds in the Dos Palos area during the period.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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