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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Medford, OR

July 20, 1999Douglas County, Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1999, 4:11 PM PDT for Douglas County, Oregon. It was in force for 64 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 20, 1999, 4:11 PM PDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 1999, 5:15 PM PDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR
Area: Whole counties

County Douglas County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 20, 2:30 PM PDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 2:30 PM PDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 20, 2:40 PM PDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 5:35 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFR	Douglas	50 min
Jul 19, 6:25 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFR	Douglas	60 min
Jul 19, 6:47 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFR	Douglas	3 hr
Jul 20, 2:32 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFR	Curry	48 min
Jul 20, 3:06 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFR	Douglas	64 min
Jul 20, 4:43 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFR	Jackson	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oregon, 1999 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.