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Wind Advisory 35, NWS Pendleton, OR

August 23, 2006Kittitas County, Yakima County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this wind advisory at Aug 23, 2006, 2:50 PM PDT for Kittitas County, Yakima County, Washington. It took effect at Aug 23, 2006, 3:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 23, 2006, 2:50 PM PDT (21:50 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 23, 2006, 3:00 PM PDT
Expired: Aug 23, 2006, 8:34 PM PDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Pendleton, OR

Counties Kittitas County, WA, Yakima County, WA

The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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-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: 3170 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Aug 23, 2:30 PM PDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 2:30 PM PDT, 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 23, 6:34 AM PDT, 8 hours 16 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 23, 8:14 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	PDT		12 hr

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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.