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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Pendleton, OR

May 18, 2006Deschutes County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2006, 5:40 PM PDT for Deschutes County, Oregon. It was in force for 65 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
May 18, 2006, 5:40 PM PDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 2006, 6:45 PM PDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Deschutes County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 237 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 406 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2006-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 60 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2006-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
60 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 18, 4:40 PM PDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 4:40 PM PDT, 1 hour before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 18, 2:46 PM PDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 12:08 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUnion67 min
May 19, 12:49 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUmatilla40 min
May 19, 1:53 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTWasco47 min
May 19, 1:55 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTWallowa65 min
May 19, 2:25 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTSherman65 min
May 19, 2:25 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTSherman65 min
May 19, 2:52 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTGilliam53 min
May 19, 3:40 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTMorrow65 min
May 19, 3:51 PM PDTTornado WarningPDTMorrow39 min
May 19, 4:11 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUmatilla64 min
May 19, 4:47 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTWalla Walla58 min
May 19, 4:52 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTFranklin53 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.