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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pendleton, OR

June 8, 2001Grant County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 2001, 7:05 PM PDT for Grant County, Oregon. It was in force for 115 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: Jun 8, 2001, 7:05 PM PDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2001, 9:00 PM PDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Pendleton, OR
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Grant County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 281 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KPDT 090213
FFWPDT
ORC023-090400-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
705 PM PDT FRI JUN 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN GRANT COUNTY IN EAST 
CENTRAL OREGON UNTIL 900.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN GRANT COUNTY HAS 
ENDED.

* AT 700 PM PDT...THE STORMS THAT CAUSED THE SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS   
  CENTRAL AND NORTHERN GRANT COUNTY HAVE MOVE NORTH OUT OF THE       
  COUNTY.  HOWEVER...THE STORMS DID PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN   
  WITH RADAR ESTIMATES OVER 1 INCH.  THIS WILL LIKE CAUSE FLASH 
  FLOODING OF MANY SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ESPECIALLY IN THE AREAS
  OF STEEP AND NARROW TERRAIN. 
  
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE 
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 4496 11905 4471 11900 4471 11954 4494 11952

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 8, 2:30 PM PDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:30 PM PDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
230 PM PDT FRI JUN 8 2001

MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS...ASSOCIATED WITH THE DISTURBANCE THAT
MOVED EAST OF THE CASCADES THIS MORNING...CONTINUE TO LINGER OVER
MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON.  CLOUD COVER WILL
INFLUENCE THE AMOUNT OF CONVECTION THAT WILL DEVELOP IN THE NEXT 12
HOURS. SPC OUTLOOK HAS NEARLY ALL OF THE FORECAST AREA IN A SLIGHT
RISK OF SEVERE T-STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  A SHORTWAVE
MOVING INLAND WILL HELP TO TRIGGER T-STORMS AS IT MOVES OVER THE
REGION.  DUE TO STEEP LAPSE RATES...UPPER LEVEL
DIFFLUENCE/DIVERGENCE...AND DECENT VERTICAL SHEAR...THE POTENTIAL
FOR ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS DOES EXIST.  HOWEVER...CLOUD COVER WILL
INHIBIT SOME T-STORM DEVELOPMENT.

MODELS HAVE A GOOD HANDLE OF SYNOPTIC PATTERN...BUT A POOR HANDLE OF
THE INDIVIDUAL DISTURBANCES EMBEDDED IN THE UPPER FLOW. PREFER THE
SLOWER ETA COMPARED TO THE AVN.  ETA KEEPS CONVECTION OVER THE
NORTHERN BLUES AND WALLOWAS THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING.  BY SATURDAY
AFTERNOON...THE FLOW ON THE BOTTOM OF THE TROUGH BECOMES WESTERLY.
ANY SHOWERS WILL MAINLY BE CONFINED TO THE MOUNTAINS AND ONLY
ISOLATED SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED.  OCCASIONAL BREEZY WINDS ARE ALSO
EXPECTED AS GRADIENTS TIGHTEN AT THE SURFACE.  SMITH

EXTENDED...A TROUGH MOVES THROUGH WASHINGTON AND OREGON MONDAY WITH
COOLER AIR AND CHANCE POPS OF SHOWERS AREAWIDE. WITH THE TROUGH AXIS
INTO IDAHO TUESDAY...WILL KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ONLY FOR THE
MOUNTAINS OF NORTHEAST OREGON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON DUE TO
WRAPAROUND MOISTURE...OTHERWISE DRY AND COOL TUESDAY. A WARMING AND
DqRYING TREND WILL DEVELOP WITH HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT AND AT THE
SURFACE WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.     FARMER

PDT 4211  ALW 4211  PSC 3111  YKM 3111

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

.KPDT...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 5:05 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Grant	40 min
Jun 8, 5:42 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Grant	48 min
Jun 8, 6:25 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Grant	35 min
Jun 8, 6:30 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	PDT	Wallowa	2 hr
Jun 8, 6:38 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Grant, Umatilla, Union	67 min
Jun 8, 7:42 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Union	63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.