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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Medford, OR

August 30, 2007Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2007, 6:13 PM PDT for Siskiyou County, California. It was in force for 32 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
Aug 30, 2007, 6:13 PM PDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 2007, 6:45 PM PDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Medford, OR
Area
Whole counties

County Siskiyou County, CA

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 00:00Z on 2007-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 632 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2007-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
632 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS56 KMFR 310113
FFWMFR
CAC093-310145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
613 PM PDT THU AUG 30 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEDFORD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL SISKIYOU COUNTY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...

* UNTIL 645 PM PDT

* AT 608 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE TOWN   
  OF KLAMATH RIVER

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES...
DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...
EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER
GROUND.

LAT...LON 4192 12285 4190 12272 4177 12279 4180 12290
TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 180DEG 0KT 4175 12204

$$

BTL
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS76 KMFR 310144
FFSMFR

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
644 PM PDT THU AUG 30 2007

CAC093-310154-
SISKIYOU CA-
644 PM PDT THU AUG 30 2007

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 645 PM PDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL SISKIYOU COUNTY...

ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO BE LIGHT.

LAT...LON 4192 12285 4190 12272 4177 12279 4180 12290
TIME...MOT...LOC 0144Z 180DEG 0KT 4175 12204

$$

LUTZ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 5:45 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningMFRSiskiyou30 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in California, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007

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.