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Wind Advisory 26, NWS Pendleton, OR

September 22, 2008Kittitas County, Yakima County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this wind advisory at Sep 22, 2008, 2:18 PM PDT for Kittitas County, Yakima County, Washington. It was in force for 7 hr.

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The facts

Issued
Sep 22, 2008, 2:18 PM PDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired
Sep 22, 2008, 9:00 PM PDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR

Counties Kittitas County, WA, Yakima County, WA

The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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 2008-09-22Temperature 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 2008-09-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1283 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 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
Sep 22, 1:01 PM PDTFreeze WarningPDT20 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.