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Freeze Warning 17, NWS Medford, OR

September 15, 2011Klamath County, Lake County, Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this freeze warning at Sep 15, 2011, 2:41 PM PDT for Klamath County, Lake County, Oregon. It took effect at Sep 16, 2011, 2:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 6 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
Sep 15, 2011, 2:41 PM PDT (21:41 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 16, 2011, 2:00 AM PDT
Expired
Sep 16, 2011, 8:00 AM PDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Medford, OR

Counties Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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

Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 290 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 2011-09-15Temperature 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 2011-09-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Sep 15, 11:56 AM PDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 11:56 AM PDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 15, 2:18 AM PDTFreeze WatchMFRKlamath, Lake12 hr
Sep 15, 3:05 AM PDTSmall Craft Advisory for WindsMFR35 hr
Sep 15, 3:05 AM PDTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasMFR35 hr
Sep 15, 2:41 PM PDTFreeze WatchMFRKlamath, Lake19 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Oregon, 2011Every freeze warning in 2011

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.