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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Pendleton, OR

June 27, 2001Morrow County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2001, 8:45 PM PDT for Morrow County, Oregon. It was in force for 60 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 27, 2001, 8:45 PM PDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2001, 9:45 PM PDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Morrow County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:49 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

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 259 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 00:00Z on 2001-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 2001-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

251 
WUUS56 KPDT 280352 CCA
SVRPDT
ORC049-059-WAC013-071-280445-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
845 PM PDT WED JUN 27 2001...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME IN HEADER CODE

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN WALLA WALLA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON
  COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON

* UNTIL 945 PM PDT

* AT 845 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAITSBURG 
  WASHINGTON TO 26 MILES WEST OF UKIAH OREGON...OR FROM 11 MILES 
  NORTH OF WALLA WALLA WASHINGTON TO 23 MILES SOUTH OF HEPPNER 
  OREGON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  ATHENA...PILOT ROCK AT 850 PM PDT
  DAYTON...WESTON AT 855 PM PDT
  WHETSTONE AT 900 PM PDT
  PATIT AT 905 PM PDT
  THORN HOLLOW AT 910 PM PDT
  UKIAH AT 915 PM PDT

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 4658 11825 4502 11977 4502 11898 4637 11770

CLOUTIER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 5:34 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUmatilla26 min
Jun 27, 8:15 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUmatilla60 min
Jun 27, 8:15 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTMorrow60 min
Jun 27, 8:45 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUmatilla60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oregon, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.