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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Pendleton, OR

March 3, 2008Morrow County, Umatilla County, Oregon; 5 counties in Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this wind advisory at Mar 3, 2008, 9:04 AM PST for Morrow County, Umatilla County, Oregon; 5 counties in Washington. It took effect at Mar 3, 2008, 2:00 PM PST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 3, 2008, 9:04 AM PST (17:04 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 3, 2008, 2:00 PM PST
Expired
Mar 4, 2008, 4:00 AM PST
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR

Counties Morrow County, OR, Umatilla County, OR, Benton County, WA, Columbia County, WA, Franklin County, WA, Klickitat County, WA, Walla Walla County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 279 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 2008-03-03Temperature 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 2008-03-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 153 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
1406 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.