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High Wind Warning 9, NWS Medford, OR

January 28, 2006Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this high wind warning at Jan 28, 2006, 1:13 PM PST for Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Oregon. It took effect at Jan 29, 2006, 6:00 AM PST. It was in force for 25 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
Jan 28, 2006, 1:13 PM PST (21:13 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 29, 2006, 6:00 AM PST
Expired
Jan 30, 2006, 6:46 AM PST
In force
25 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 21:17 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, 9.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2006-01-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2006-01-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 306 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1182 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
306 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
645 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 
WWUS76 KMFR 282113
NPWMFR

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
113 PM PST SAT JAN 28 2006

ORZ021-022-290515-
/O.UPG.KMFR.HW.A.0004.060129T1400Z-060130T0200Z/
/O.NEW.KMFR.HW.W.0009.060129T1400Z-060130T1200Z/
SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON COAST-CURRY COUNTY COAST-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COOS BAY...NORTH BEND...REEDSPORT...
COQUILLE...BROOKINGS...HARBOR...GOLD BEACH
113 PM PST SAT JAN 28 2006

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM SUNDAY TO 4 AM PST
MONDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEDFORD HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM SUNDAY TO 4 AM PST MONDAY.
THE HIGH WIND WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

A WARM FRONT MOVING IN SUNDAY MORNING WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF
HIGH WINDS TO THE OREGON COAST. WINDS SUNDAY WILL BE SOUTH AROUND
30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 65 MPH. STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE
INTO SUNDAY NIGHT AS THE FOLLOWING COLD FRONT MOVES TOWARD THE
COAST. BY EARLY MONDAY MORNING AS THE COLD FRONT REACHES THE COAST
AND MOVES INLAND THE WINDS WILL DIMINISH.

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED
OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF
58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE.

$$

MO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 28, 2:25 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRCoos, Curry, Douglas11 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Oregon, 2006Every high wind warning in 2006

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.