A weak cold frontal passage brought breezy to gusty winds for parts of the San Joaquin Valley and caused minor damage.
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.
A weak cold frontal passage brought breezy to gusty winds for parts of the San Joaquin Valley and caused minor damage.
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 1, 5:05 PM PST, 6 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA 505 PM PST Wed Feb 1 2017 ..Updated Air Quality section... .SYNOPSIS...A Pacific storm system will move into the region tonight through Friday. High pressure will return for the weekend with dry weather before another storm system moves into Central California Monday and Tuesday. && .DISCUSSION...Last of today's fog dissipated over the center of the San Joaquin Valley shortly before noon. Satellite imagery now shows lots of mid level alto cumulus clouds moving east across the region well in advance of the incoming Pacific storm. Upstream radar from the Bay Area shows precipitation stretching from the peninsula to the North Bay and then east into the Sacramento area. Latest timing from forecast models brings the precipitation into western Merced County shortly after midnight and then spreads it southeast through the night time hours. This first system has distinct bands of precipitation out ahead of the low center which is currently near 38N/135W. The first as mentioned above will move through tonight and Thursday morning and given satellite images a break will occur Thursday afternoon and Thursday night before the second band, now crossing 130W moves through on Friday. I have kept rather high pops as the sum of the two waves will give nearly everyone over the north a chance of some rain or snow. Speaking of snow, freezing levels with this system will average around 6000-6500 feet which will keep most winter sports areas in the snow and above the rain. Latest forecast precipitation shows lower end winter storm warning values will occur in zone 96 and lesser amounts to the south for advisory conditions. By Saturday, latest GFS model moves the second wave east of the area with ridging building in from the west. Pops have been trimmed back for Saturday with Sunday remaining dry. The next storm system is progged to arrive Sunday night and Monday and linger into Tuesday before ridging builds back over the region later Tuesday and Wednesday for a return again to dry weather. && .AVIATION... In the San Joaquin Valley...generally MVFR visibilities in haze thru 06Z THU. becoming mainly MVFR in rain and mist with areas of IFR visibility after 06Z THU. Mountain obscuring IFR conditions in low clouds and precipitation will develop over the higher elevations of the Southern Sierra Nevada and adjacent foothills north of Kings Canyon after 06Z THU, from Kings Canyon southward after 12Z THU; and in the Tehachapi Mountains after 15Z THU. Otherwise, VFR conditions can be expected during the next 24 hours. && .AIR QUALITY ISSUES... On Thursday February 2 2017... Fireplace/Wood Stove Burning Status is: No Burning Unless Registered in Fresno... Kern... Kings... Madera 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. && public...Dudley avn/fw...DS synopsis...Dudley weather.gov/hanford
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Weather station (AR808) in Los Banos reported maximum wind gusts of 34 mph and sustained winds from 10 to 22 mph between 2313 PST and 2358 PST. Also, was reported by local COOP observer that a palm tree was blown down as well as an air conditioner blown off of a roof.
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