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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Pendleton, OR

December 1, 2007Gilliam County, Sherman County, Wasco County, Oregon; Kittitas County, Klickitat County, Yakima County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this winter storm warning at Dec 1, 2007, 4:59 AM PST for Gilliam County, Sherman County, Wasco County, Oregon; Kittitas County, Klickitat County, Yakima County, Washington. It took effect at Dec 1, 2007, 8:00 PM PST. It was in force for 20 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 1, 2007, 4:59 AM PST (12:59 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 1, 2007, 8:00 PM PST
Expired
Dec 2, 2007, 4:00 PM PST
In force
20 hr
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR

Counties Gilliam County, OR, Sherman County, OR, Wasco County, OR, Kittitas County, WA, Klickitat County, WA, Yakima County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:04 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

Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Salem/Mcnary, OR at 12:00Z on 2007-12-01Temperature 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, Salem/Mcnary, OR at 12:00Z on 2007-12-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 1, 3:55 AM PST, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 1, 3:55 AM PST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 1, 4:59 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDTMorrow, Umatilla29 hr
Dec 1, 12:37 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchPDTGilliam, Grant, Morrow, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa and 1 more17 hr
Dec 1, 12:37 PM PSTHigh Wind WarningPDTCrook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Jefferson, Morrow and 4 more59 hr
Dec 1, 12:37 PM PSTWind AdvisoryPDTGrant, Jefferson, Morrow, Union, Wasco, Wheeler3 days

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Oregon, 2007Winter Storm Warnings in Washington, 2007Every winter storm 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.