Alert archive / Oregon / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pendleton, OR

May 14, 1997Grant County, Morrow County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1997, 4:36 PM PDT for Grant County, Morrow County, Oregon. It was in force for 39 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: May 14, 1997, 4:36 PM PDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1997, 5:15 PM PDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Pendleton, OR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Grant County, OR, Morrow County, OR

The nearest sounding before it

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 291 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: 2357 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 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 142338 RRA
SVRPDT
ORC023-049-150015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
436 PM PDT WED MAY 14 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENDLETON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OREGON
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY...SOUTHERN MORROW COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A LARGE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST GRANT COUNTY
SLOWLY MOVING NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHERN MORROW COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM
HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HAIL OF 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER OR GREATER.
HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONG DEVELOPING
THUNDERSTORM.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
SMITH

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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 14, 2:42 PM PDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 2:42 PM PDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
240 PM PDT WED MAY 14 1997

BIG THANK YOU TO KOTX FOR RUNNING THE 19Z SOUNDINGS AND THE HEADS-
UP TO NEIGHBORING OFFICES.

TS FORMING IN CENT ORE AS SKIES CLR UP. TOPS REACHING 35K AND
SPOTTERS CONFIRM TS BUT NO REPORTS OF HAILS THUS FAR. WITH LI'S OF
-4 AND CAPE AT LEAST 750 ERN ORE/SE WASH COULD SEE MORE CNVCTN INTO
LATE EVNG. HI CAPES PROGGED TO CONT ACRS NE MTNS AND SE ORE THUT
TNGT AND MTNS ZONES COULD SEE PROLONGED CNVCTN. DP IN THE 50S IN
THE LOWER BASIN AND FOOTHILLS AND HVY RA PSBL. SATL IMGRY AND RADAR
SHOW CELLS MOVG AT A GOOD SPEED. AT PRESENT FLASH FLDG APPRS LESS
LIKELY BUT WILL ALERT ONCOMING SHIFT ON THE POTENTIAL. MDLS SHOW W
FLO PUSHING INTO WRN COL GORGE THURS BUT NOT QUITE TO THE FOOTHILL.
AMS STL UNSTABLE THURS FOR ANTHR ROUND OF AFTN CNVCTN. RDG PROGGEDF
TO FLATTED SLGTLY AS NRN STM S/WV BRUSHES ACRS NRN WASH WITH SOME
COOLING.
FB

PDT 2221  ALW 2221  PSC 111-  YKM 211-

.PDT...FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR NACHES RVR IN YAKIMA CNTY.
       FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR YAKIMA RVR IN YAKIMA CNTY.
       FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR IMNAHA RVR IN WALLOWA CNTY.

.KPDT...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL.
...CORRECTED POPS.

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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.