A low pressure system moving through the Pacific Northwest provided enough mixing to keep dense fog confined to a portion of eastern Kings, western Tulare and central Fresno Counties during the morning of January 12 for a few hours. The fog dissipated by late morning.
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 low pressure system moving through the Pacific Northwest provided enough mixing to keep dense fog confined to a portion of eastern Kings, western Tulare and central Fresno Counties during the morning of January 12 for a few hours. The fog dissipated by late morning.
1 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
Hanford reported visibility below a quarter mile. California Highway Patrol reported visibility below 500 feet at the intersection of 15th Ave. and Grangeville Blvd at 0706 PST.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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