Alert archive / Oregon / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2001, 6:35 PM PDT for Jackson County, Oregon. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 2001, 6:35 PM PDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2001, 7:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Jackson County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3301 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS56 KMFR 130137 SVRMFR ORC029-130230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 635 PM PDT THU JUL 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEDFORD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OREGON THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MEDFORD * UNTIL 730 PM PDT. * AT 628 PM PDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 7 MILES SOUTH EAST OF RUCH...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RUCH AT 650 PM PDT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JACKSONVILLE AT 720 PM PDT 2 MILES WEST OF PHOENIX...4 MILES NORTHWEST OF TALENT...5 MILES SOUTH OF MEDFORD...7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CENTRAL POINT AT 730 PM PDT IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...PA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. LAT...LON 4213 12320 4200 12304 4227 12264 4246 12283 $$ BUNNAG
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 12, 2:30 PM PDT, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 2:30 PM PDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
SOUTHWEST OREGON/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 230 PM PDT THU JUL 12 2001 SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCE IS CURRENTLY MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS EASTERN SISKIYOU ONEOUS REPORTS MAY BE RECEIVED UNDER CERTAIN : WEATHER CONDITIONS : : ********************************************************** : ID LOCATION 1HR PCPN : ********************************************************** .B FTW 20010712 DH2200/PPH :CITY OF DALLAS ALERT SYSTEM DCPT2 :Turtle Creek-Wildwood :0.00 DBWT2 :NW Hwy-Edgemere Rd :0.00 DBTT2 :McCree Branch-White Rock :0.00 DCVT2 :White Rock Creek-Spring :M DCCT2 :Preston Road-Olive :0.00 DAET2 :Dixon Branch-blw NW Hwy :0.00 DCTT2 :White Rock Lake Dam :0.00 DBLT2 :Stonewall Jackson School :0.00 DBJT2 :Harry Stone Park-Millman :0.00 DAJT2 :Exall Park-Bryan St :0.00 DBIT2 :Garrett Park-Bryan St :0.00 DWCT2 :White Rock Creek-Scyene Rd :0.00 DBST2 :Lake June Branch-St Aug :0.00 DADT2 :Elam Creek Lake-June Rd :0.00 DAYT2 :White Rock Creek-CF Haw :0.00 DCKT2 :SMBX-Municipal Budd :0.00 DCXT2 :Woody Branch-Westmoreland :M DABT2 :Woody Branch-Polk St :M DAQT2 :Five Mile Creek-Polk St :0.00 DAMT2 :Five Mile Creek-Lancaster :M DAOT2 :Five Mile Creek-Westmoreland:0.00 DDCT2 :Sarget Rd-Morrell Ave :0.00 DBAT2 :Cedar Creek-Clarendon Dr :0.00 DBDT2 :Coombs Creek-Hampton Rd :0.00 DAPT2 :Donald School :0.00 DBOT2 :Jefferson Blvd-Ira Ave :0.00 DAZT2 :Camp Wisdom Rd-Sarah Dr :M DCRT2 :Upper Able Sump-1200 In :0.00 DBGT2 :Corinth St Intake-West :0.00 DDDT2 :Sylvan-Union Pacific Rail :0.00 DCNT2 :Singleton Blvd-Shadrack :0.00 DAGT2 :Eagleford Control Gate :0.00 GPRT2 :West Fork-Beltline Rd :0.00 DAKT2 :2255 Irving Blvd :0.00 DBBT2 :Cedar Springs-Kings Road :0.00 DBVT2 :Mockingbird-CRI&P RR :0.00 DBRT2 :Knights Branch-Denton Dr :0.00 DBKT2 :Inwood Rd-University Blvd :0.00 DAIT2 :Elm Fork-California Crossing:0.00 DBPT2 :Joes Creek-Walnut Hill :0.00 DCOT2 :Townsend-Royal Park :0.00 DAXT2 :Bachman Dam :0.00 DATT2 :Bachman Branch-Midway Rd :0.00 DAHT2 :Bachman Branch-Walnut Hill :M DCZT2 :Bachman Branch-Forest Lane :M .END
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.