FXUS66 KHNX 091610
AFDFAT

INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
910 AM PDT MON JUN 9 2003

CLEAR SKIES PREVAIL ACROSS THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR THIS 
MORNING...WHILE ALONG THE COAST STRATUS ABOUNDS. THE FORT ORD 
PROFILER SHOWED A MARINE LAYER DEPTH OF ABOUT 2400 FEET...AND THE 
AUTOMATED SENSOR AT SAN LUIS RESERVOIR REPORTED A WEST WIND AROUND 
25 MPH. THUS...EXPECT A MINOR MARINE PUSH INTO THE WEST SIDE OF THE 
CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. BIT GIVEN THE RELATIVE SHALLOWNESS...DO 
NOT ANTICIPATE ANY BREEZY CONDITIONS OR MARKED COOLING. /AT 1431Z... 
THE SAN LUIS NWR RAWS WAS DOWN ONLY 2 DEGREES...AS WAS THE LOS BANOS 
RAWS./

CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE LOOKS PRETTY GOOD. THE ONLY CHANGE IS TO 
ADD A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS TO THE 
KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS. THE 12Z MESO-ETA FORECASTS A SURFACE CAPE 
PEAK OF 950 JOULES/KG JUST WEST OF TEHACHAPI...WITH A LIFTED INDEX 
OF -5. THUNDERSTORMS LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON PRODUCED THE HEAVIEST 
CONVECTIVE RAINFALL OVER THE KERN COUNTY PORTION OF THE SIERRA 
NEVADA...AND WITH THE 12Z MESO-ETA FORECASTING THE HIGHEST 
INSTABILITIES OVER THE KERN COUNTY SIERRA AND THE TEHACHAPI 
MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON...THE ADDITION OF SLIGHT CHANCE POPS SEEMS 
REASONABLE.

.HNX...NONE.

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