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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Pendleton, OR

June 2, 1998Grant County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1998, 9:36 PM PDT for Grant County, Oregon. It was in force for 4 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
Jun 2, 1998, 9:36 PM PDT (04:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1998, 1:35 AM PDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR
Area
Whole counties

County Grant County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 319 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, Salem/Mcnary, OR at 00:00Z on 1998-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Salem/Mcnary, OR at 00:00Z on 1998-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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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 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 Jun 2, 8:00 PM PDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 8:00 PM PDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 6:09 PM PDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OREGON
609 PM PDT TUE JUN 02 1998

TIME(PDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 PM    CENTERVILLE               WA   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/98   KLICKITAT                      FREQUENT THUNDER AND
                                          LIGHTNING WITH QUICK BURST
                                          OF RAIN. NO HAIL AND NO
                                          STRONG WINDS. (SPOTTER
                                          KLICKITAT 4)

0545 PM    WISHRAM                   WA   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/98   KLICKITAT                      BURST OF HEAVY RAIN WITH
                                          LESS THAN PEA SIZE HAIL
                                          AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
                                          SPOTTER (KLICKITAT 14H)

0545 PM    CLE ELUM                  WA   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/98   KITTITAS                       RAIN .45 INCHES IN LESS
                                          THAN 1 HOUR WITH FREQUENT
                                          THUNDER AND LIGHTNING. NO
                                          HAIL REPORTED (SPOTTER
                                          KITTITAS 3)

0600 PM    ADAMS                     OR   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/98   UMATILLA                       THUNDERSTORM WITH FREQUENT
                                          LIGHTNING AND GUST OF WIND
                                          TO 35 MPH. ONLY SOME LIGHT
                                          RAIN. (SPOTTER UMATILLA
                                          2H)
Local storm report, Jun 2, 7:26 PM PDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 6:37 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPDTWasco48 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Oregon, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.