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Winter Storm Warning 10, NWS Medford, OR

March 16, 2006Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this winter storm warning at Mar 16, 2006, 9:26 AM PST for Siskiyou County, California. It was in force for 5 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: Mar 16, 2006, 9:26 AM PST (17:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2006, 2:54 PM PST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR

County Siskiyou County, CA

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1262 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 365 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 722 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 16, 8:57 AM PST, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 8:57 AM PST, 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
857 AM PST THU MAR 16 2006

CORRECTED HEADLINES

.DISCUSSION...COLD FRONT MOVING ONSHORE THIS MORNING WITH A NARROW
BAND OF HEAVY MOISTURE SEEN IN WATER VAPOR STREAMING IN. THIS WILL
MOVE SLOWLY THROUGH INTO THIS EVE. SNOW LEVELS OUT IN THE ILLINOIS
VALLEY ARE AS LOW AS 1500 FEET AND A BIT HIGHER ELSEWHERE. WILL
UPDATE FOR A SNOW ADVISORY THERE AS HAYES HILL IS LOOKING QUITE SNOWY
ON THE WEB CAM. WARNING SNOW AMOUNTS HAVE FALLEN OVER SISKIYOU COUNTY
OVERNIGHT AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING. UPDATING TO WINTER
STORM FOR 080-082-083. UPDATING SNOW AMOUNTS AND SNOW LEVELS
ELSEWHERE THROUGH THIS EVE TO INCLUDE HIGHER SNOW AMOUNTS IN THE
MTNS.

&&

.AVIATION...WIDESPREAD MVFR AND SCT IFR VSBY/CIGS IN RAIN AND SNOW
COAST TO CASCADES...BETTER CONDS EAST OF THE CASCADES. CONDS
WORSENING EAST OF CASCADES LATE AFTN/TNT.

&&

WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OR...HAZARDOUS SEAS WARNING THRU FRI MORN FLORENCE TO CA BORDER 0-60
     NM.
  ...GALE WARNING THRU LATE TNT FLORENCE TO CA BORDER 0-60 NM.
  ...SNOW ADVISORY ABOVE 1500 FEET THROUGH NOON TODAY ILLINOIS VALLEY
     ZONE 024.
CA...HAZARDOUS SEAS WARNING THRU FRI MORN OR BORDER TO PT ST GEORGE
     0-60 NM.
  ...GALE WARNING THRU LATE TNT OR BORDER TO PT ST GEORGE CA 0-60 NM.
  ...WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 10 PM ABOVE 3000 FEET ZONES 80-82-83.
  ...HIGH WIND WARNING SHASTA VALLEY ZONE 081 THROUGH 4 PM.

STAVISH

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

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 16, 6:30 AM PST, 2 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 16, 8:54 AM PST, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
854 AM PST THU MAR 16 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0853 AM     HEAVY SNOW       1 N MOUNT SHASTA        41.32N 122.31W
03/16/2006  M8.0 INCH        SISKIYOU           CA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            24 HOUR TOTAL ENDING AT 830 AM PST. STILL SNOWING.

&&

SARGEANT

Local storm report, Mar 16, 9:18 AM PST, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
918 AM PST THU MAR 16 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0917 AM     HEAVY SNOW       4 SW WEED               41.37N 122.42W
03/16/2006  M8.0 INCH        SISKIYOU           CA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            24 HOUR TOTAL ENDING AT 8AM

&&

BUNKER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 16, 9:26 AM PST	Snow Advisory	MFR	Curry, Josephine	2 hr
Mar 16, 12:21 AM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	MFR	Siskiyou	9 hr
Mar 16, 11:29 AM PST	Wind Advisory	MFR	Siskiyou	3 hr
Mar 16, 2:54 PM PST	Snow Advisory	MFR	Siskiyou	13 hr

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.