Alert archive / Oregon / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this flash flood warning at Nov 18, 1996, 9:19 AM PST for 4 counties in Oregon. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 18, 1996, 9:19 AM PST (17:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 18, 1996, 9:30 PM PST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coos County, OR, Curry County, OR, Douglas County, OR, Josephine County, OR
The nearest sounding before it
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 462 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 797 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 KMFR 181725 FFWMFR ORC011-015-019-033-190530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SMALL RIVER AND STREAM FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 919 AM PST MON NOV 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEDFORD OR HAS ISSUED A SMALL RIVER AND STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM PST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST OREGON ...ALL OF COOS COUNTY ...ALL OF CURRY COUNTY THE OREGON STATE POLICE HAVE CLOSED HIGHWAY 101 AT MILE POST 281 SOUTH OF BANDON DUE TO WATER COVERING THE ROAD. HEAVY RAINS ARE FORECAST TO CONTINUE ALONG THE SOUTH OREGON COAST FOR THE NEXT 36 HOURS...WHICH WILL CAUSE SMALL COASTAL RIVERS AND STREAMS TO CONTINUE TO SWELL. MOTORISTS TRAVELING ALONG HIGHWAY 101 ON THE SOUTH OREGON COAST...AND IN THE SOUTH OREGON COAST IN GENERAL ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY RISING STREAMS AND CREEKS AND WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS DIPS...DITTCHES...BRIDGES...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. VAN TRESS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Nov 18, 8:28 AM PST, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 18, 8:28 AM PST, 51 minutes before
SOUTHWEST OREGON/NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 830 AM PST MON NOV 18 1996 E-W BAROCLINIC BAND ACROSS REGION THIS MORNING AND LIKELY TO REMAIN THAT WAY THRU TONIGHT. BAND EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE SW-NE ORIENTED LATER TONIGHT AND THRU TUESDAY WITH MAIN FOCUS OF HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING COAST AND COAST RANGE. BELIEVE COQUILLE RIVER BASIN MAY BECOME A FLOODING PROBLEM BY TUESDAY. STRONG SHRT WV NEAR 40/145 THIS AM WILL APPROACH N CALIF. COAST TUE AM AND MOVE INLAND BY TUE EVE. SFC LOW DEEPENING WILL HAVE TO BE WATCHED FOR POSSIBLE HIGH WINDS S COAST AREA BEGINNING THIS AFTERNOON THRU TUE MORNING. IN THE MEAN TIME GRADIENT WINDS ACROSS AREA STRENGTHENING SOMEWHAT THIS MORNING. SQAW PK RAWS (4900') REPORTING SUSTAINED 49MPH. IN SUMMARY...STEADY RAIN THRU MOST OF TUESDAY THEN ENDING TUESDAY NIGHT WITH SHRT WV RIDGE OVER AREA WED. HIGH WIND POTENTIAL S COAST AS SFC LOW OFF N CALIF. COAST APPROACHES. HOLTZ .KMAX...VCP 21...OPERATIONAL. .MFR...NONE. ...SEE PDXCCFPDX FOR CODED CITIES FORECAST. MFR RR 055/046 054/042 050 05+++6 LMT RR 049/041 050/036 045 059775 RBG RR 055/046 054/043 050 05+++8 4BK RR 057/050 058/047 055 05+++9 OT8H RR 056/049 056/044 054 05+++9 YKA RR 053/043 054/038 048 059886 MHS RR 048/044 049/038 046 059785 S11 RR 047/037 048/033 044 058775
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 18, 4:52 AM PST, 4 hours 27 minutes before
ORZ003-007-008-012-015-CAZ011-012-181830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 450 AM PST MON NOV 18 1996 ...VERY WET AND INCREASING WINDY WEATHER EXPECTED THROUGH TUESDAY... ...SIGNIFICANT RISES EXPECTED IN STREAMS AND RIVERS BY TUESDAY... DEEP SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD INTO SOUTHWESTERN OREGON AND NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA THROUGH TUESDAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS THROUGH THIS EVENING ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE ONE TO THREE INCH RANGE ALONG THE SOUTH COAST AND IN THE SOUTH CASCADES AND SISKIYOUS ...AND IN THE ONE HALF TO ONE AND ONE QUARTER INCH RANGE IN THE ROGUE AND UMPQUA BASINS. SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL PERSIST TODAY ALONG THE COAST AND IN THE HIGHER PLATEAUS OF SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON AND NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA. A STRONG SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN TONIGHT AND MOVE INTO SOUTHWESTERN OREGON TUESDAY. THIS SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO INCREASE THE INTENSITY OF THE RAINFALL AND WIND SPEEDS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. OVER FIVE INCHES OF TOTAL RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY EVENING ALONG PARTS OF THE COAST AND IN FAVORED MOUNTAIN LOCATIONS. BASIN LOCATIONS MAY SEE OVER TWO INCHES TOTAL RAINFALL THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. SIGNIFICANT RIVER RISES ARE EXPECTED BY TUESDAY EVENING...PARTICULARLY ALONG THE COAST. OKULSKI
Local storm report, Nov 18, 8:15 AM PST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
815 AM PST MON NOV 18 1996
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 AM OR WIND DAMAGE
11/18/96 CURRY SIXES RIVER...55 MPH WIND
GUSTLocal storm report, Nov 18, 8:15 AM PST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
815 AM PST MON NOV 18 1996
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 AM OR NO WIND DAMAGE
11/18/96 CURRY SIXES RIVER...55 MPH WIND
GUSTLocal storm report, Nov 18, 8:16 AM PST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
815 AM PST MON NOV 18 1996
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 AM OR WIND DAMAGE
11/18/96 CURRY SIXES RIVER...55 MPH WIND
GUSTLocal storm report, Nov 18, 8:22 AM PST, 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
815 AM PST MON NOV 18 1996
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCAT ION....
0805 AM OR NO WIND DAMAGE
11/18/96 CURRY SIXES RIVER...55 MPH WIND
GUSTLocal storm report, Nov 18, 9:13 AM PST, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
913 AM PST MON NOV 18 1996
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0824 AM HARBOR OR NON TSTM WINDS
11/18/96 CURRY 60 MPH WIND GUST AT 600
AM.
0829 AM ROGUE RIVER OR
11/18/96 JACKSON 1.11 INCHES RAINFALL
7PM-7AM, 8N OF ROGUE RIVER
0853 AM GREEN OR
11/18/96 DOUGLAS 1.85 INCHES RAINFALL, 800
AM TO 800 AM.
0855 AM COPPER OR
11/18/96 JACKSON 1.12 INCHES RAINFALL, 400
AM TO 800 AM, 4NE COPPER
0857 AM GOLD BEACH OR
11/18/96 CURRY 2.20 INCHES RAINFALL, 600
PM TO 800 AM.
0859 AM BANDON OR
11/18/96 COOS 2.57 INCHES RAINFALL, 800
AM TO 800 AM, HVY RAIN
NOW.
0901 AM BANDON OR
11/18/96 COOS 2.65 INCHES RAINFALL, 100
PM TO 900 AM
0901 AM GLIDE OR
11/18/96 DOUGLAS 2.05 INCHES RAINFALL, 800
AM TO 800 AM.
0903 AM CA
11/18/96 SISKIYOU LAKE SHASTINA, 48 MPH WIND
GUST AND INCREASING.
0905 AM OR
11/18/96 JACKSON 0.82 INCH RAINFALL, 1100
PM TO 800 AM, PHOENIXNearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oregon, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.