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Wind Advisory 34, NWS Pendleton, OR

July 29, 2006Kittitas County, Yakima County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this wind advisory at Jul 29, 2006, 2:27 PM PDT for Kittitas County, Yakima County, Washington. It took effect at Jul 30, 2006, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 2006, 2:27 PM PDT (21:27 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 30, 2006, 11:00 AM PDT
Expired
Jul 30, 2006, 9:00 PM PDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR

Counties Kittitas County, WA, Yakima County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 341 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 2006-07-29Temperature 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, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2006-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 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
2390 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 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
Jul 29, 9:21 AM PDTFire Weather WatchPDT23 hr
Jul 29, 9:21 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT36 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Washington, 2006Every wind advisory 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.