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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Medford, OR

May 27, 2005Jackson County, Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2005, 8:21 PM PDT for Jackson County, Oregon. It was in force for 15 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2005, 8:21 PM PDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2005, 8:36 PM PDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jackson County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 9 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: 323 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -223 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS56 KMFR 280322
SVRMFR
ORC029-280400-
/O.NEW.KMFR.SV.W.0003.050528T0321Z-050528T0400Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
821 PM PDT FRI MAY 27 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEDFORD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OREGON
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MEDFORD

* UNTIL 900 PM PDT

* AT 820 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TALENT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF
  MEDFORD...AND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MEDFORD BY 840 PM PDT
  CENTRAL POINT...6 MILES SOUTH OF WHITE CITY AND 8 MILES SOUTH OF
  EAGLE POINT BY 845 PM PDT

LAT...LON 4218 12297 4216 12273 4246 12264 4249 12295

$$

REYNOLDS

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS56 KMFR 280336
SVSMFR

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
834 PM PDT FRI MAY 27 2005

ORC029-280344-
/O.CAN.KMFR.SV.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050528T0400Z/
JACKSON OR-
834 PM PDT FRI MAY 27 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS DECREASED IN INTENSITY SOUTH OF MEDFORD 
AND THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 

LAT...LON 4218 12297 4216 12273 4246 12264 4249 12295

$$

MDB

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 May 27, 1:20 PM PDT, 7 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:20 PM PDT, 7 hours 1 minute before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
120 PM PDT FRI MAY 27 2005

.DISCUSSION...

THE MAIN FEATURES ARE DEEP MOISTURE IN WEAK SOUTHERLY FLOW WITH
COOLING ALOFT AND WEAK DIVERGENCE AT 500MB AS A CLOSED LOW NEAR 40N
130W MOVES TOWARD NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA. THESE FEATURES WILL CONTINUE
THE THUNDERSTORMS WELL INTO THE EVENING AND POSSIBLY MOST OF THE
NIGHT EAST OF THE CASCADES WHERE THE GFS SHOWS A SHORT WAVE ROTATING
UP FROM THE SOUTH.

SATURDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP AS THE
UPPER LOW MOVES EAST JUST SOUTH OF THE OREGON BORDER. COOLER TEMPS
ALOFT AND WIDESPREAD CLOUDINESS WILL BRING DOWN THE TEMPERATURES AS
COMPARED WITH TODAY. THE LOW CONTINUES TO MOVE SLOWLY JUST SOUTH OF
THE OREGON BORDER SUNDAY MAINTAINING THE COOLER TEMPS AND BRINGING
ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS. THE GFS AND ECMWF A SIMILAR IN
TIMING AND POSITION OF THE LOW.

MONDAY WILL BE A FEW DEGREES WARMER THAN SUNDAY AND DRY DUE TO THE
EXIT OF THE UPPER LOW BEING REPLACED BY A SHORT WAVE RIDGE. THERE
AFTER 500MB HEIGHTS GRADUALLY FALL WITH A DRY PATTERN AND NORMAL
TEMPERATURES. IF THE ENSEMBLE MEAN IS FOLLOWED THIS PATTERN PERSISTS
INTO THE FIRST WEEK OF JUNE.

&&

.MFR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OR...NONE.
CA...NONE.

&&

ALSO VISIT THE NWS ON THE WEB AT WEATHER.GOV/MEDFORD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 7:34 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFR	Jackson	22 min

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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.