The remaining central California drought areas in Kern County were finally terminated during the month of February, 2017. 46 during the month.
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.
The episode as NWS HNX wrote it up.
The remaining central California drought areas in Kern County were finally terminated during the month of February, 2017. Bakersfield received slightly above normal precipitation with 1.46 during the month. Above normal precipitation amounts did allow for continued improvement on drought conditions with an increase in soil moisture and further reservoir recharge.
The U.S. Drought Monitor continued to report drought conditions with only a small area in southwestern Kern county having the Extreme (D3) category left along with parts of the Kern County Desert areas. The month ended with no areas of central California Interior with a D3 Extreme drought category.
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 Jan 31, 7:23 PM PST, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA 723 PM PST Tue Jan 31 2017 .SYNOPSIS...Dry weather will continue over the area through Wednesday with night and morning fog in the San Joaquin Valley. Wet weather will return to the region late Wednesday night and continue through Friday night with breezy to locally windy conditions. && .DISCUSSION...Surface dew points remain in the mid to upper 40s this evening. This combine with clear skies and light winds has increased confidence in dense fog overnight. Visibilities have already began to fall with 03Z surface analysis showing widespread 3 to 4 miles. Fresno is the hold out but its surface dew point depression remains one of the largest across the valley. Nevertheless, that will change as radiational cooling continues over the next several hours. A Dense Fog Advisory is in effect from 10 PM tonight to noon tomorrow, with greatest confidence that fog will develop between Highway 99 and I5. Still, another round of widespread dense fog is likely in the morning. Adjust your travel plan and/or commute to allow for slower driving due to reduced visibilities. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 310 PM PST Tue Jan 31 2017/ DISCUSSION...Dry upper ridge over CA is the prevailing weather feature today. This has provided our area with another dry day and unseasonably warm temperatures over the Southern Sierra Nevada and adjacent foothills as well as over the Tehachapi Mountains. Meanwhile inversion conditions and light winds prevailed over the San Joaquin Valley overnight and this morning resulting in a significant area of dense fog which persisted into the early afternoon in some locations. Several multiple vehicle collisions occurred today in the central San Joaquin Valley. The ridge is progged to slowly weaken and move east tonight and Wednesday as shortwave energy pushes through Norcal. IR imagery is indicating some mid/high clouds poised to slip southward into central CA tonight and along with the energy to our north may inhibit widespread fog formations. However, patches of dense fog might form overnight in the central and south San Joaquin Valley tonight and adverse travel conditions are possible again late tonight and Wednesday morning. WV indicating a large upper low pressure center near 34N/143W which is slowly tracking toward the CA coast. This system pulled a shortwave northward today which is progged to push into Norcal by Wednesday Night. Precipitation from this system is progged to impact our northern areas by late Wednesday Night and push southward during the day Thursday. This system does contain some tropical moisture so snow levels will be fairly high for early February, between 6000 and 7000 feet on Thursday morning rising to 7000 to 8000 feet during the day Thursday afternoon then lower to around 6000 feet by late Friday. QPF progs are indicating 1.5 to 3 inches of liquid precipitation for the Southern Sierra Nevada from Yosemite Park to Kings Canyon Wednesday night through Friday evening and half an inch to 1.5 inches of liquid precipitation south of Kings Canyon. Have issued a Winter Storm Warning above 6000 feet for the Southern Sierra Nevada from Kings Canyon Northward and a Winter Weather Advisory for the Southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County as significant to heavy snowfall will likely adversely impact travel over the higher Sierras. The low is progged to cross Norcal by Friday Night with diminishing showers across our area. The medium range models and their ensemble means are indicating a shortwave ridge building inland into Socal on Saturday with shortwave energy streaming to our north across Norcal over the weekend. Our area should remain dry on Saturday through Sunday except for a few showers in or northernmost areas. Daytime temepratures will be near normal while overnight lows will be above normal as a result of mid/high clouds from a Pacific moisture fetch being pulled up from a large upper low near Vancouver Island. This large low will move inland Sunday Night and Monday and push some shortwave energy through central CA Sunday Night and Monday. Have raised POPs and sky cover for this time frame as a result as confidence has improved that our area will see another round of precipitation early next week. An upper ridge is then progged to amplify off the CA coast next Tuesday with a northwest flow ahead of it providing for unsettled conditions across our area until the ridge pushes inland toward the middle of next week. && .AVIATION... In the San Joaquin Valley...widespread MVFR visibilities in haze through 04Z Wednesday...then areas of LIFR visibilities and ceilings in fog developing through 19Z Wednesday. VFR conditions will prevail elsewhere across the central California interior through 00Z Thursday. && .AIR QUALITY ISSUES... On Wednesday February 1 2017... Unhealthy for sensitive groups in Fresno... Kern... Kings and Tulare Counties. Fireplace/Wood Stove Burning Status is: No Burning Unless Registered in Fresno... Kern... Kings... Madera... Merced and Tulare Counties. Further information is available at Valleyair.org && .CERTAINTY... The level of certainty for days 1 and 2 is medium. The level of certainty for days 3 through 7 is medium. Certainty levels include low...medium...and high. Please visit www.weather.gov/hnx/certainty.php for additional information an/or to provide feedback. && .HNX Watches/Warnings/Advisories... Winter Weather Advisory from 4 AM Thursday to 10 PM PST Friday CAZ097. Winter Storm Warning from 4 AM Thursday to 10 PM PST Friday ABOVE 6000 FEET FOR THE CAZ096. Dense Fog Advisory until noon PST Wednesday CAZ089>092. && public...Meadows avn/fw...DCH prev discussion...DS weather.gov/hanford
2 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Persistent drought conditions continued to be reported. However, wetting rainfall during the month did lessen the short term impacts across the area.
Persistent drought conditions continued to be reported. However, wetting rainfall during the month did lessen the short term impacts across the area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2017Every state in 2017This day in weather historyWarnings in California, February 2017
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: 679212, 679213.