Alert archive / Oregon / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Pendleton, OR
NWS Pendleton, OR issued this flash flood warning at Jan 1, 1997, 2:01 PM PST for Wheeler County, Oregon. It was in force for 2 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
- Jan 1, 1997, 2:01 PM PST (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 1997, 4:30 PM PST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pendleton, OR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wheeler County, OR
The nearest sounding before it
Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1193 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jan 1, 8:30 AM PST, 5 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 1, 8:30 AM PST, 5 hours 31 minutes before
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 830 AM PST WED JAN 1 1997 150+KT JET OVR ORE QCKLY PUSHED LOW TWRDS VCVR ISLD THIS MORN WITH FRNTL PSTN VCNTY OF SERN ORE. RNFALL AMTS HVY OVR BLUES WITH MEH REPORTING 0.65 INCHES IN 3 HR PD. WITH HI SNOW LVLS AND RAIN OVRNGT...FLOODING AND MUDSLIDES TO CONT. H20 VPR LOOPS SHOW ANTHR WAVE DVLPG NEAR 40/130. SW FLOW ALF AND SUBTPCL TAP WILL CONT THREAT OF MORE RNFALL AS THIS VORT MAX PASSES THRU. SINCE FROPA OCCURRED ERLR THIS AM...HAVE LWRD POPS FOR BASIN AND FTHILLS TDY. 12Z MODELS SIMILAR AT BRINGING NXT SYS TO CST LATE THU AND E OF CASCDS FRI. SNOW LVLS TO DCRS BY FRI MORN WHICH SHUD PUT AN END TO RUNOFF. NGM COOLER THAN ETA BY DROPPING THCKSS DOWN TO 527DM FRI AM. THIS WUD LWR SNOW LVLS DOWN TO BASIN FLOOR. WILL TAKE A CLSR LUK AT NEW RUNS BFR DECIDING PCPN TYPE FOR BASIN/FTHILLS. SMITH PDT 6446 ALW 6446 PSC 5334 YKM 64 45 .PDT...SEE FFWPDT...FLSPDX AND FLWSEA FOR FLOOD WRNGS/WATCHES/ADVYS. .KPDT...VCP 21/CSR-21...OPERATIONAL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pendleton, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 7:07 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | Morrow, Umatilla | 7 hr |
| Jan 1, 7:07 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | Wheeler | 7 hr |
| Jan 1, 9:17 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | Union, Wallowa | 7 hr |
| Jan 1, 10:13 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | Gilliam, Sherman | 6 hr |
| Jan 1, 10:13 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | Grant | 6 hr |
| Jan 1, 2:01 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | Umatilla | 2 hr |
| Jan 1, 5:40 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | Yakima | 9 hr |
| Jan 1, 5:55 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | Columbia | 6 hr |
| Jan 1, 11:02 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | Klickitat | 6 hr |
| Jan 1, 11:45 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | Columbia, Walla Walla | 5 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.