Alert archive / Oregon / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1986, 7:05 PM PDT for Klamath County, Oregon. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1986, 7:05 PM PDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1986, 9:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Klamath County, OR
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPDX 140216 SVRPDX BULLETIN-EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND, OR 716 PM PDT SAT JUN 13 1986 ORC035-140400- BULLETIN- IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND, OR 705 PM PDT FRI JUN 13 1986 EXPIRES 900 PM PDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 9 PM FRIDAY FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON...KLAMATH AT 7 PM..RADAR AND SATELLITE PHOTOS INDICATED AN AREA OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS JUST WEST OF KLAMATH FALLS OREGON..MOVING SLOWLY NORTH NORTHEAST ABOUT 12 MPH. THIS STORM IS ACCOMPANIED BY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..OSTRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH LARGE HAIL AND LOCAL HEAVY RAIN. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.. YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. NISHIMOTO
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 5:35 PM PDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD, OR 528 PM PDT SAT JUN 13 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS NEARING THE OREGON BORDER... AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED JUST 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASHLAND ON THE SOUTH SLOPES OF THE SISKIYOU MOUNTAINS. RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT IS TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. PERSONS LIVING IN THE ASHLAND TO APPLEGATE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LOCAALY VERY HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE SLOWLY NORTHWARD. OLSON
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.