Alert archive / Oregon / Freeze Warnings in 2006
Freeze Warning 21, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this freeze warning at Oct 30, 2006, 2:48 PM PST for Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Oregon. It took effect at Oct 31, 2006, 12:00 AM PST. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 30, 2006, 2:48 PM PST (22:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 31, 2006, 12:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2006, 9:00 AM PST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Coos County, OR, Curry County, OR, Douglas County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1031 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS76 KMFR 302248 NPWMFR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 248 PM PST MON OCT 30 2006 ORZ021-023-310700- /O.NEW.KMFR.FZ.W.0021.061031T0800Z-061031T1700Z/ SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON COAST-CENTRAL DOUGLAS COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COOS BAY...NORTH BEND...REEDSPORT... COQUILLE...ROSEBURG...SUTHERLIN...GREEN 248 PM PST MON OCT 30 2006 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM PST TUESDAY FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON COAST AND CENTRAL DOUGLAS COUNTY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEDFORD HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM PST TUESDAY FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON COAST AND CENTRAL DOUGLAS COUNTY. ANOTHER NIGHT OF GENERALLY CLEAR SKIES AND LIMITED MOISTURE WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP BELOW FREEZING IN THE UMPQUA AND COQUILLE BASINS BY TOMORROW MORNING. A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION.TO PREVENT FREEZING AND POSSIBLE BURSTING OF OUTDOOR WATER PIPES...PIPES SHOULD BE WRAPPED...DRAINED...OR ALLOWED TO DRIP SLOWLY. THOSE THAT HAVE IN-GROUND SPRINKLER SYSTEMS SHOULD DRAIN THEIR SYSTEMS...OR COVER ANY ABOVE-GROUND PIPES TO PROTECT THEM FROM FREEZING. $$ SVEN
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS76 KMFR 310631 NPWMFR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 1031 PM PST MON OCT 30 2006 ORZ021-023-311700- /O.CON.KMFR.FZ.W.0021.061031T0800Z-061031T1700Z/ SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON COAST-CENTRAL DOUGLAS COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COOS BAY...NORTH BEND...REEDSPORT... COQUILLE...ROSEBURG...SUTHERLIN...GREEN 1031 PM PST MON OCT 30 2006 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST TUESDAY FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON COAST AND CENTRAL DOUGLAS COUNTY... ANOTHER NIGHT OF GENERALLY CLEAR SKIES AND LIMITED MOISTURE WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP BELOW FREEZING IN THE UMPQUA AND COQUILLE BASINS BY TOMORROW MORNING. A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION.TO PREVENT FREEZING AND POSSIBLE BURSTING OF OUTDOOR WATER PIPES...PIPES SHOULD BE WRAPPED...DRAINED...OR ALLOWED TO DRIP SLOWLY. THOSE THAT HAVE IN-GROUND SPRINKLER SYSTEMS SHOULD DRAIN THEIR SYSTEMS...OR COVER ANY ABOVE-GROUND PIPES TO PROTECT THEM FROM FREEZING. $$ MWJ
Nearby
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.