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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pendleton, OR

June 24, 1999Union County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1999, 3:26 PM PDT for Union County, Oregon. It was in force for 49 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
Jun 24, 1999, 3:26 PM PDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1999, 4:15 PM PDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, OR

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 24, 2:00 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 293 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, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 1999-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 1999-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-273 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 24, 2:12 PM PDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:12 PM PDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
230 PM PDT THU JUN 23 1999

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES THROUGH 8 PM. MID-LEVEL COLD
POOL HAS DESTABILIZED THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS NORTHEAST OREGON AND
SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON THIS AFTERNOON. WITH THE HELP OF A 90-KNOT
JET STREAK MOVING INTO THE REGION...SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL
REMAIN THROUGH THE EVENING.

MAIN UPPER TROUGH TO PASS TO THE EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA BY 06Z
EFFECTIVELY TAKING THE STRONGER DYNAMICS WITH IT. THIS WILL RESULT
IN SCATTERED EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE SKIES BECOME
PARTLY CLOUDY LATER. TIGHT SURFACE GRADIENT AND COLD AIR ADVECTION
WILL KEEP WINDS IN THE BREEZY CATEGORY TONIGHT.

GENERAL TROUGH CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST
PERIOD ALTHOUGH ABUNDANT MOISTURE WILL BE LACKING. WILL THEREFORE
KEEP THE TREND OF COOL AND PARTLY CLOUDY WEATHER GOING ALONG WITH
SMALL CHANCES OF SHOWERS IN THE FORECAST AS A NUMBER OF WEAK
DISTURBANCES ROTATE THROUGH THE TROUGH.

EXTENDED PERIOD: UPPER TROUGH WILL EXIT THE AREA SUNDAY WITH
RIDGING BUILDING IN FOR MONDAY. PROGS INDICATE ANOTHER TROUGH
MOVING INTO THE AREA TUESDAY.  ISAACSON

PpDT 4112  ALW 4112  PSC 3111  YKM 0112

.KPDT...WSR-88D...VCP 21/CSR 32...OPERATIONAL

.KPDT...NONE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 1:17 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTSherman, Wasco48 min
Jun 24, 2:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUnion50 min
Jun 24, 2:51 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTGilliam, Morrow44 min
Jun 24, 3:00 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTDeschutes65 min
Jun 24, 3:13 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUmatilla47 min
Jun 24, 3:22 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUnion, Wallowa63 min
Jun 24, 3:32 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTMorrow, Umatilla63 min
Jun 24, 3:52 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTCrook, Deschutes63 min
Jun 24, 4:23 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTWallowa32 min
Jun 24, 4:37 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTMorrow, Umatilla48 min
Jun 24, 3:19 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTBenton, Walla Walla66 min

Nearby

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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.