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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Pendleton, OR

August 5, 2010Kittitas County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2010, 4:40 PM PDT for Kittitas County, Washington. It was in force for 73 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 5, 2010, 4:40 PM PDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2010, 5:53 PM PDT
In force
73 min
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Kittitas County, WA

The radar

The Seattle radar (KATX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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

Quillayute State, WA (KUIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 301 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, Quillayute State, WA at 12:00Z on 2010-08-05Temperature 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, Quillayute State, WA at 12:00Z on 2010-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 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
1210 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 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
Aug 5, 9:16 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT37 hr
Aug 5, 3:51 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTUnion54 min
Aug 5, 4:09 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUnion65 min
Aug 5, 4:42 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPDTUnion3 hr

Nearby

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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.