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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Pendleton, OR

July 1, 2006Union County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2006, 4:19 PM PDT for Union County, Oregon. It was in force for 56 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
Jul 1, 2006, 4:19 PM PDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2006, 5:15 PM PDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Union County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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 nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 293 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, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2006-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 480 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, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2006-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
480 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1957 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 7:16 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTWheeler48 min
Jun 30, 8:47 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTGrant58 min
Jul 1, 2:21 PM PDTHeat AdvisoryPDTMorrow, Umatilla3 days
Jul 1, 4:51 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUnion54 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.