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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Pendleton, OR

June 30, 1998Klickitat County, Yakima County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1998, 6:19 PM PDT for Klickitat County, Yakima County, Washington. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 1998, 6:19 PM PDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1998, 7:05 PM PDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Pendleton, OR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Klickitat County, WA, Yakima County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 30, 6:20 PM PDT	Hail 0.75	Glenwood, WA	A thunderstorm in Glenwood produced 3/4 inch hail and heavy rain.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 30, 2:30 PM PDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 2:30 PM PDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
230 PM PDT TUE JUN 30 1998

12Z KMFR AND KBOI UPPER AIR SOUNDINGS INDICATE INCREASING MOISTURE
IN MID AND UPPER ATMOSPHERE. THIS ALONG WITH WEAK SHORT WAVE
APPROACHING SW ORE COAST WILL HELP SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO
CONTINUE DEVELOPING OVER MOUNTAINS E SIDE REMAINDER OF THIS
AFTERNOOON AND INTO EVENING. A SHORT WAVE IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
OFFSHORE AND MOVE INLAND FROM SW ORE COAST LATE WED AFTERNOON AND
EVENING FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. BEST
THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL WED IS EXPECTED IN BLUE MOUNTAINS AND
FOOTHILLS AND ALONG CASCADES. CONTINUED HOT WED WITH TEMPS REACHING
INTO THE MID TO UPPER 90S. FLOW ALOFT BACKS TO S AND BECOMES MORE
PRONOUNCED THU AS UPPER TROUGH BECOMES A CLOSED LOW OVER SW ORE.
AVN MODEL SUGGEST DIURNAL CONVECTION ALONG E SLOPES OF ORE CASCADES
TONIGHT AND WED NIGHT. INCREASING CLOUDINESS AND POPS THU AS WEAK
VORTICITY MAXES MOVE AROUND CUTOFF LOW AND TRIGGER CONVECTION OVER
FORECAST AREA. SURFACE THERMAL TROUGH SHIFTS E TO IDAHO THU FOR
MARINE AIR INTRUSION ALONG WITH MORE CLOUD COVER WILL COOL TEMPS
THU BY 6-8 DEGREES.  POLAN

PDT 2335  ALW 2335  PSC 1223  YKM 2333

.KPDT-88D...VCP21/CSR21.

.KPDT...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 30, 4:05 PM PDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OREGON
405 PM PDT TUE JUN 30 1998

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

0300 PM    10 SW UKIAH               OR   .75 INCH HAIL
06/30/98   UMATILLA                       UMATILLA N.F. EMPLOYEE
                                          REPORT

Local storm report, Jun 30, 4:37 PM PDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OREGON
437 PM PDT TUE JUN 30 1998

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

0433 PM    BEND                      OR   .5 INCH HAIL
06/30/98   DESCHUTES                      PEA TO MARBLE SIZE
                                          HAIL...MODERATE
                                          INTENSITY..LIGHT WIND FQT
                                          LTGCG DESCHUTES 27

Local storm report, Jun 30, 4:53 PM PDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OREGON
453 PM PDT TUE JUN 30 1998

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

0449 PM    TUMALO                    OR   1 INCH HAIL
06/30/98   DESCHUTES                      DESCHUTES 23H MODERATE
                                          INTENSITY 1 INCH HAIL AT
                                          1633PDT

Local storm report, Jun 30, 5:37 PM PDT, 42 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 5:28 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	PDT	Crook	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Washington, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.