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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Medford, OR

August 26, 1996Klamath County, Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1996, 7:50 PM PDT for Klamath County, Oregon. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 26, 1996, 7:50 PM PDT (02:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 1996, 8:25 PM PDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Medford, OR
Area
Whole counties

County Klamath County, OR

The nearest sounding before it

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 1996-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 1996-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3844 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 26, 1:33 PM PDT, 6 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 1:33 PM PDT, 6 hours 17 minutes before
SOUTHWEST OREGON/NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
130 PM PDT MON AUG 26 1996

BND OF TS CONTS TO MV NWWD OVR THE E SIDE IN THE DIFFLUENT MOIST AREA
TO THE NW OF THE UPR LO. THESE TS SHUD BE MSTLY TO THE N OF CWA BY
TNGT..BUT LINGERING INSTBY MSTR..ALG WITH CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE LO
WL MNTN THE RISK OF SH/FEW TS ACRS SW/S CNTL ORE THRU TMRW MRNG. AS
IT PASSES TO THE E MARINE..LYR WL DPN AND COOL ALL AREAS INLD BY TUE
AFTN. KRBG SHUD STAY IN THE 70S WITH MR SC CLD CVR. HIPRES BLDS INTO
AREA TUE NGT/WED..SQUASHING THE MARINE LYR AND ALLOWING A LTL WRMG FM
THE CST TO THE E SIDE. UPR RDG BLDS SMWHT THU AHD OF THE E PAC
TROF..THEN TMPS WILL DROP BACK TO NR NML INLD WITH DECENT ONSHR FLOW
AND LWRG THKNS/HGTS WITH SWLY UPR WNDS. CHC OF PCPN WL BE MINIMAL TO
NONE FRI/SAT..AS TROF MINORS OUT. HGTS WL BE TOO HI AND AMS STL TOO
DRY.  BURBACK

.KMAX...VCP21...OPERATIONAL.

.MFR...NONE.

...SEE PDXCCFPDX FOR CODED CITIES FORECAST.

MFR BU 059/089 056/093 057 092200
LMT WU 049/082 048/086 050 0932-0
RBG BU 057/079 053/085 055 092100
4BK EB 054/063 052/067 052 091100
OTH EB 052/066 050/067 051 091-00

The office that day

Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 6:37 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRJackson33 min

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.