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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Pendleton, OR

June 12, 2006Jefferson County, Wheeler County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2006, 4:03 PM PDT for Jefferson County, Wheeler County, Oregon. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2006, 4:03 PM PDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2006, 5:00 PM PDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jefferson County, OR, Wheeler County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 12, 2:43 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 312 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 2006-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 23 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2006-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 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
23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 11:37 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTDeschutes53 min
Jun 12, 1:53 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTDeschutes67 min
Jun 12, 2:46 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTCrook, Deschutes59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oregon, 2006Every severe thunderstorm 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.