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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Pendleton, OR

July 29, 1997Grant County, Wheeler County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 1997, 7:16 PM PDT for Grant County, Wheeler County, Oregon. It was in force for 119 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: Jul 29, 1997, 7:16 PM PDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 1997, 9:15 PM PDT
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Pendleton, OR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Grant County, OR, Wheeler County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 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

Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 277 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPDT 300219
FFWPDT
ORC069-023-300415-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
716 PM PDT TUE JUL 29 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENDLETON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL OREGON
 
   ...WHEELER COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST OREGON
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY
 
RAINFALL TOTALS IN NORTHWEST GRANT COUNTY AND WHEELER COUNTY WERE FROM
1.5 TO 2.2 INCHES IN A THREE HOUR PERIOD THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO DISSIPATE IN MOST AREAS EAST OF THE
CASCADES. HOWEVER IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL MORE HOURS FOR RUNOFF TO FLUSH
OUT OF AREA STREAMS.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
 
 
TOBIN
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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 Jul 29, 2:22 PM PDT, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 2:22 PM PDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before

NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
215 PM PDT TUE JUL 29 1997

CONVECTION ACROSS S CWFA ATTM.  STRONGEST STORMS ALONG CLD SHIELD
IN SE/SCNTRL ORE.  KMAX 88D 1-HR PCPN ESTIMATE 1.3 INCH SRN
DESCHUTES CNTY.  BELIEVE SOME OF THE ESTIMATE IS HAIL CONTAMINATION
BUT WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR FOR FLASH FLOODING.

12Z MODELS DO NOT DO A GOOD JOB WITH VORT CNTR OVR N CA.  ETA
CLOSEST OF THE THREE BUT EVEN IT WAS TO FAR N WITH CNTR VALID AT
18Z.  SLOWER TIMING OF CIRCULATION IS BEST.  VORT CNTR SHOULD
FINALLY EJECT TO ID PANHANDLE WED AFTN.  WARMER WED BECAUSE OF SUN
BUT UNSTABLE AGAIN.  ENOUGH RESIUAL MSTR WILL REMAIN E SIDE FOR
ANOTHER FUN TS DAY.  THU DRYING BUT STILL WK VORT RIPPLES AND SLY
FLO FOR MORE CONVECTION E SIDE.

EXTDD...L/WV TROF DOESN'T SEEM TO WANT TO MOVE INLAND.  FLO
OSCILLATES FROM SLY TO SWLY WITH S/WVS IN FLO.  PDXWRKSFP LOOKS
GOOD.  SB

PDT 6431  ALW\ 6431  PSC 5221  YKM 4211

.KPDT...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL.

.KPDT...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 5:45 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	PDT	Grant	90 min
Jul 30, 3:27 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Deschutes	63 min
Jul 30, 4:18 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Deschutes, Jefferson	117 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Oregon, 1997 Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.