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Winter Storm Warning 18, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this winter storm warning at Nov 19, 2010, 2:19 AM PST for Curry County, Josephine County, Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Nov 19, 2010, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 33 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
- Nov 19, 2010, 2:19 AM PST (10:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 19, 2010, 10:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Nov 21, 2010, 7:00 AM PST
- In force
- 33 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Curry County, OR, Josephine County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:18 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 470 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm warning went out at Nov 18, 8:48 PM PST, 5 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 18, 8:48 PM PST, 5 hours 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 2:22 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | MFR | 72 hr | |
| Nov 19, 2:38 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | MFR | Jackson, Josephine, Klamath | 40 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Oregon, 2010Winter Storm Warnings in California, 2010Every winter storm warning in 2010
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.