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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pendleton, OR
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 1:17 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Sherman, Wasco | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 2:35 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Union | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 2:51 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Gilliam, Morrow | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 3:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Deschutes | 65 min |
| Jun 24, 3:13 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Umatilla | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 3:22 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Union, Wallowa | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 3:32 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Morrow, Umatilla | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 3:52 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Crook, Deschutes | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 4:23 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Wallowa | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 4:37 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Morrow, Umatilla | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 3:19 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | Benton, Walla Walla | 66 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.