A slow moving cold front moved through the forecast area during the morning hours, resulting in some shower activity. Behind the cold front snow levels dropped and fairly widespread rainfall was occurring in the Valley.
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The episode as NWS HNX wrote it up.
A slow moving cold front moved through the forecast area during the morning hours, resulting in some shower activity. Behind the cold front snow levels dropped and fairly widespread rainfall was occurring in the Valley.
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 Nov 2, 3:39 AM PST, 6 hours 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
339 AM PST MON NOV 2 2015
.SYNOPSIS...
SHOWERS SLOWLY MOVING INTO THE AREA TODAY...WITH ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SHOWERS WILL LINGER INTO
TOMORROW ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AS THE STORM
SYSTEM WORKS ITS WAY THROUGH THE REGION. WHILE...ACROSS THE
SOUTHERN SIERRA COULD SEE SHOWERS THROUGH MID WEEK. A GRADUAL
WARMING TREND WILL DEVELOP THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK.
&&
.DISCUSSION...SHOWERS ARE SLOWLY WORKING INTO THE NORTH EDGE OF
THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING. THOUGH...THE BULK OF THE ACTIVITY
IS TRAILING BY A FEW HOURS. NEVERTHELESS...TODAY LOOKS LIKE A WET
ONE FOR MOST OF THE AREA.
THE COLD FRONT THAT HAS BEEN ADVERTISED IS SLOWLY SLIDING INTO THE
FORECAST AREA. 12Z ANALYSIS HAS IT KNOCKING ON THE DOOR. IT WILL
LIKELY MOVE THROUGH MOST OF THE AREA BY THIS AFTERNOON...WHICH
WILL ALLOW FOR SNOW LEVELS TO DROP FROM 9 KFT TO AROUND 6
KFT...WITH A FEW LOCATIONS SEEING 5 KFT SNOW LEVELS BY DAYS END.
OTHERWISE...ONLY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE FORECAST WERE MADE TO
POP/QPF. POPS WERE RAISED ALMOST ACROSS THE BOARD...ESPECIALLY FOR
THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. MODELS SEEM TO BE STRUGGLING OVERALL WITH
QPF...BASED ON UPSTREAM OBSERVATIONS. HAVE GENERALLY INCREASED QPF
VALUES...WITH SOME LOCATIONS TRENDED TOWARDS THE HIGHER MEMBERS OF
THE ENSEMBLE MEMBERS OF THE HRRR AND SREF. SNOW FALL AMOUNTS STILL
LOOK SIMILAR TO PREVIOUS FORECAST.
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING THERE WILL ALSO BE A THREAT OF SOME
CONVECTIVE STORMS ACROSS MAINLY THE WESTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST
AREA...SO HAVE CONTINUED ISOLATED THUNDER MENTION. THAT BEING
SAID...PROGGED INSTABILITY LOOKS A BIT LIMITED...BUT WILL LIKELY
BE ENHANCED BY THE POTENTIAL BREAK IN SHOWER ACTIVITY THIS
AFTERNOON. NEVERTHELESS...SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE LATER TODAY.
THE UPPER TROUGH THAT HAS BROUGHT ALL THIS TO US WILL PUSH
THROUGH OVERNIGHT TONIGHT AND INTO TOMORROW NIGHT. MOST OF THE
PRECIP IS EXPECTED TO HAVE ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA...BUT
ENOUGH MOISTURE SHOULD BE IN PLACE FOR SOME CONTINUAL SHOWERS
ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HAVE OF THE FORECAST AREA. ACCUMULATIONS WITH
THIS ISN'T EXPECTED TO BE A WHOLE LOT AFTER MIDNIGHT AS THE UPPER
LEVEL JET MAX SLIDES OUT. OTHERWISE...ONLY MINOR CHANGES TO THE
EXTENDED FORECAST.
&&
.AVIATION...
AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL SPREAD PRECIPITATION FROM NORTH TO
SOUTH THROUGH THE DAY. WIDESPREAD MVFR AND AREAS OF IFR CONDITIONS
ARE EXPECTED OVER THE MOUNTAINS WITH AREAS MVFR AND LOCAL IFR IN THE
VALLEY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE VALLEY AND ADJACENT
FOOTHILLS FROM 18Z MON THRU 06Z TUES. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 KTS WILL
DEVELOP OVER THE RIDGES AND ACROSS THE EASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT.
&&
.AIR QUALITY ISSUES...
NONE.
&&
.CERTAINTY...
THE LEVEL OF CERTAINTY FOR DAYS 1 AND 2 IS HIGH.
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 11-02 88:1949 53:1957 56:2012 34:1946
KFAT 11-03 88:1949 56:1935 55:1941 33:1994
KFAT 11-04 86:1931 55:1925 60:1941 30:1973
KBFL 11-02 89:1949 60:1947 58:1992 31:1935
KBFL 11-03 95:1921 58:1994 56:1968 33:1922
KBFL 11-04 89:1931 55:1996 59:1970 29:1935
&&
.HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING CAZ097.
WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING ABOVE 7000
FEET FOR THE CAZ096.
WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING CAZ095-098-099.
&&
PUBLIC...MEADOWS
AVN/FW...DCH
SYNOPSIS...MEADOWS
WEATHER.GOV/HANFORDThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 dust storm, 1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
California Highway Patrol reported blowing dust along Highway 99 in the south valley between Bear Mountain Blvd and Houghton Road. 18 vehicles crashed and 15 people were injured. This resulted in closure of the south bound lanes of Highway 99.
California Highway Patrol reported a mudslide across the Caliente Bodfish Road at Caliente Creek. Roadway was reported as impassable.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in California, November 2015
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: 605902, 605903.