Alert archive / Oregon / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Pendleton, OR
NWS Pendleton, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 4:13 PM PDT for Union County, Wallowa County, Oregon. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1995, 4:13 PM PDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1995, 5:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pendleton, OR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Union County, OR, Wallowa County, OR
The nearest sounding before it
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1389 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 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 KPDT 092314 RRA SVRPDT ORC061-063-100000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 413 PM PDT SUN JUL 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENDLETON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST OREGON ...NORTHERN UNION COUNTY...NORTHERN WALLOWA COUNTY AT 4:10 PM...A WEATHER SPOTTER 6 MILES EAST OF ELGIN REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST INTO A SPARSELY POPULATED AREA OF NORTHWEST WALLOWA COUNTY...NORTHWEST OF ENTERPRISE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY 0LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. DOHERTY &
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, Jul 9, 2:20 PM PDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
ORZ010-011-WAZ010-092315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 220 PM PDT SUN JUL 9 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST OREGON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON UNTIL 6 PM... A 2:20 PM...ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING IN EASTERN UMATILLA...NORTHERN UNION...WESTERN WALLOWA AND SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. MONITOR FORECASTS CLOSELY BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. DOHERTY
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 3:55 PM PDT, 18 minutes before
ORZ011-WAZ010-100100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 355 PM PDT SUN JUL 9 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST OREGON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON UNTIL 6 PM... AT 3:55 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED IN NORTHERN UNION COUNTY IN THE ELGIN AREA. ACCORDING TO A UNION COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTY...THE STORM WAS PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST INTO A SPARSELY POPULATED AREA OF THE BLUE MOUNAINS IN NORTHWEST WALLOWA...SOUTHERN COLUMBIA...AND SOUTHERN GARFIELD COUNTIES BY 4:30 PM. MONITOR FORECASTS CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. DOHERTY &
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 3:56 PM PDT, 17 minutes before
ORZ011-WAZ010-100100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 355 PM PDT SUN JUL 9 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST OREGON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON UNTIL 6 PM... AT 3:55 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED IN NORTHERN UNION COUNTY IN THE ELGIN AREA. ACCORDING TO A UNION COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTY...THE STORM WAS PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST INTO A SPARSELY POPULATED AREA OF THE BLUE MOUNAINS IN NORTHWEST WALLOWA...SOUTHERN COLUMBIA...AND SOUTHERN GARFIELD COUNTIES BY 4:30 PM. MONITOR FORECASTS CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. DOHERTY &
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oregon, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.