Dense Fog, Foggy Bottom
- When
- February 14, 7:20 AM PST to 8:10 AM PST
- Where
- Foggy Bottom forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
Visibility below a quarter mile was reported in Hanford.
Dense Fog in California, February 14, 2020
High pressure prevailed over Central California during the morning of February 14. With clear skies and light winds over the San Joaquin Valley some patches of dense fog formed toward daybreak over portions of Kings and Fresno Counties.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS HNX wrote it up.
High pressure prevailed over Central California during the morning of February 14. With clear skies and light winds over the San Joaquin Valley some patches of dense fog formed toward daybreak over portions of Kings and Fresno Counties. The fog completely dissipated by 930 am.
Event by event
1 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Dense Fog
- Fog reducing visibility to a quarter mile or less, filed where it caused accidents or disruption.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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Sources
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 868815.