Alert archive / Oregon / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this flash flood warning at Nov 18, 1996, 8:48 PM PST for Douglas County, Jackson County, Josephine County, Oregon; Siskiyou County, California. 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, 8:48 PM PST (04:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 19, 1996, 9:00 AM PST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Siskiyou County, CA, Douglas County, OR, Jackson County, OR, Josephine County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 374 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 850 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 8:34 PM PST, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 18, 8:34 PM PST, 14 minutes before
SOUTHWEST OREGON/NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
830 PM PST MON NOV 18 1996
BAROCLINIC BAND MOVG NORTH OVR SWRN ORE. RADAR AND SATL SHOW
INTENSITY OF THIS BAND DECRNG OVR JACKSON AND JOSEPINE COUNTYS
MNLY...BUT STILL SOME SHWRS OVR THOSE COS AND NRN CAL. APRS FOR MOST
PART HVY RAINS WILL BE TURNING TO SHWRS FOR THESE AREAS BY SUNRISE.
COAST AND UMPQUA STILL UNDER LCLLY HVY PRECIP. NEW PROGS CONT TREND
OF CURRENT FCST...SO WILL BASICALLY LEAVE THINGS AS IS. APPRS WINDS
MAY DCRS MANY AREAS TUE MORN AS OFF SHORE LOW MOVES INLAND EVENTUALLY.
BG
.KMAX...VCP 21...
.MFR...FLW...COQUILLE R./N. UMPQUA
FFW...SMALL STREAM/URBAN FLOODING JACKSON...JOSEPHINE...
CURRY...COOS...DOUGLAS...WRN SISKIYOU COUNTIES TGNT
FFA...MAINSTEM S COAST/W SISKIYOU COUNTY
...SEE PDXCCFPDX FOR CODED CITIES FORECAST.
MFR RC 046/053 039/050 034 05++63
LMT RC 043/050 030/044 Z030 057743
RBG RC 046/052 040/049 040 05++75
4BK RC 052/057 045/055 045 05++75
OTH RC 050/055 045/053 045 05++75
YKA RC 040/052 030/048 030 059963
MHS RC 041/049 035/046 030 059963
S11 RC 037/054 030/050 025 059753In the hours before
Local storm report, Nov 18, 4:45 PM PST, 4 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
444 PM PST MON NOV 18 1996
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0355 PM GRANTS PASS OR
11/18/96 JOSEPHINE JO03 NEAR GRANTS PASS 2.64
INCHES OF RAIN FROM 6PM
SUNDAY UNTIL 245PM TODAY.
0357 PM OR
11/18/96 COOS 3S OF MYRTLE POINT 2.5
INCHES OF RAIN PAST 2 DAYS
AS OF 5AM. 3.75 SINCE 5AM.
0358 PM COPPER OR
11/18/96 JACKSON COPPER 4NE 1.57 INCHES OF
RAIN 4PM-4PM.
0359 PM OR FLOODING
11/18/96 JOSEPHINE NEAR CAVE JUNCTION WATER
OVER THE ROAD HWY 199
MP30.
0400 PM NORTH BEND OR FLOODING
11/18/96 COOS NORTH BEND 2.50 INCH OF
RAIN 4PM-4PM. FAIRLY
EXTENSIVE URBAN FLOODING
IN COOS BAY AND NORTH
BEND.
0401 PM PORT ORFORD OR
11/18/96 CURRY PORT ORFORD 5E 5.25 INCES
OF RAIN 8AM-4PM WIND
25-30G60MPH.
0403 PM NORTH BEND OR
11/18/96 COOS SPOTTER #47 NORTH BEND 24
HOUR PRECIPITATION ENDING
AT 4PM 3.20 INCHES.
MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES AT
4PM.
0440 PM PORT ORFORD OR
11/18/96 CURRY SPOTTER REPORTED 1.50
INCHES RAIN FROM 2PM-4PM
b PST.Local storm report, Nov 18, 6:20 PM PST, 2 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
618 PM PST MON NOV 18 1996
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM OR
11/18/96 DOUGLAS 5.02 INCHES LAST 24 HOURS
0516 PM BANDON OR
11/18/96 COOS THE VERY END OF BILL CREEK
NEAR BANDON...24 HOUR RAIN
- 4.8 " SINCE 9AM ROAD
WASHED OUT TO
HOUSE..OCCUPANTS STRANDED
IN HOME.
0528 PM MURPHY OR
11/18/96 JOSEPHINE AT 5PM 24 HOUR RAINFALL
4.8". 3;33 PM AT
MURPHY/RANTS PASS WIND
ESTIMATED 40 TO 50 MPH,
BLEW TREE DOWN-CAR HIT
TREE-UNCONFIRMED INJURY.
0541 PM GRANTS PASS OR
11/18/96 JOSEPHINE SPOTTER JO30 GRANST PASS
REPORTED 2.2 INCHES OF
RAIN 81M TO 5:30PM
0607 PM ROSEBURG OR
11/18/96 DOUGLAS SPOTTER D03 AT MELROSE
NEAR ROSEBURG 3.87 INCHES
7 AM TO 6 PM THIS EVENIN.
0615 PM BANDON OR
11/18/96 COOS NEAR WHISKEY RUN
BEACH...TREES DOWN ON
BEACH LOOP ROAD TAKING
DOWN POWER LINES. 4.4
INCHES RAIN LAST 24 HOURS.Local storm report, Nov 18, 7:01 PM PST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
700 PM PST MON NOV 18 1996
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0643 PM ROSEBURG OR
11/18/96 DOUGLAS FROM 10PM SUNDAY TIL 6PM
MONDAY 4.85" IN NORTHWEST
ROSEBUJRG
0657 PM ROSEBURG OR
11/18/96 DOUGLAS DO11 4.55 INCHES SINCE 10
PM SUNDAYLocal storm report, Nov 18, 7:30 PM PST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
728 PM PST MON NOV 18 1996
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0724 PM TALENT OR
11/18/96 JACKSON .75 INCHES SINCE 7AM THIS
MORNING 1/2 MI EAST OF
TALENT.
0726 PM BUTTE FALLS OR
11/18/96 JACKSON SPOTTER JA45 BUTTE FALLS
REPORTED 1.57 INCHES SINCE
AM THIS MORNING.Special weather statement, Nov 18, 7:43 PM PST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
CAC093-ORC011-015-019-029-033-190930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT/URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 740 PM PST MON NOV 18 1996 ...A SMALL RIVER AND STREAM FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM THIS EVENING... ...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL TUESDAY AFTERNOON... ...A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN OREGON AND WESTERN SISKIYOU COUNTY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA... RADAR AND SATELLITE DATA CONTINUE TO DISPLAY MODERATE TO HEAVY AREAS OF RAIN FROM THE OREGON COAST EASTWARD TO THE CASCADES THIS EVENING. HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OBSERVED FROM THE SOUTH COAST THROUGH DOUGLAS COUNTY AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF JOSEPHINE AND JACKSON COUNTIES. MORE HEAVY RAIN BANDS OFF THE COAST WILL SPREAD OVER THE AREA THROUGHOUT THIS EVENING. FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHERN OREGON WEST OF THE CASCADES AND IN WESTERN SISKIYOU COUNTY IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TONIGHT. REPORTS OF STREAMS APPROACHING OR EXCEEDING BANKFULL HAVE BEEN SCATTERED ABOUT THE AREA. NEAR THE COAST SECTIONS OF HIGHWAY 101 WERE CLOSED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. RAINFALL AMOUNTS SINCE LATE LAST NIGHT HAVE RANGED UP TO AROUND SIX INCHES AT GOLD BEACH TO THE ROSEBURG AREA. SOME RIVERS AND STREAMS...LIKE THE COQUILLE AND UMPQUA...COULD REACH RECORD LEVELS BY TUESDAY. IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THE SCOTT RIVER HAS SEEN SOME IMPRESSIVE RISES THE PAST FEW HOURS. PERSONS LIVING IN THE SCOTT RIVER VALLEY SHOULD MONITOR THE SITUATION AND TAKE QUICK ACTION SHOULD FLOODING OCCUR. RESIDENTS OF THE ENTIRE AREA SHOULD MAINTAIN HEIGHTENED AWARENESS FOR POTENTIAL FLOODING OF ROADWAYS...STREAMS AND RIVERS...AND LOW-LYING AREAS THROUGHOUT TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. BURBACK
Local storm report, Nov 18, 8:31 PM PST, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
829 PM PST MON NOV 18 1996
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0808 PM GOLD BEACH OR
11/18/96 CURRY SPOTTER #20 CURRY CO IN
GOLD BEACH REPORTED 5.60
INCHES OF RAIN FOR 24
HOURS EDING A 8PM.
0826 PM COOS BAY OR
11/18/96 COOS 5.05 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE
8 8AM. 2.15 INCHES BETWEEN 7
AND 8 PM POWER WENT OUT
WITH WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.The office that day
Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 5:00 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MFR | Douglas, Josephine | 19 hr |
| Nov 18, 8:48 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MFR | Coos, Curry | 12 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.