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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this winter storm watch at Feb 12, 2011, 2:32 PM PST for 5 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Feb 14, 2011, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2011, 2:32 PM PST (22:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 14, 2011, 4:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2011, 3:00 AM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Douglas County, OR, Jackson County, OR, Josephine County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 454 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
- 3391 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 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 watch 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 watch went out at Feb 12, 8:46 AM PST, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 8:46 AM PST, 5 hours 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 2:25 AM PST | Gale Watch | MFR | 24 hr | |
| Feb 12, 2:25 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | MFR | 24 hr | |
| Feb 12, 2:25 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | MFR | 46 hr | |
| Feb 12, 3:04 AM PST | High Wind Watch | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Klamath, Lake | 24 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:59 AM PST | Hazardous Seas Watch | MFR | 17 hr | |
| Feb 12, 12:58 PM PST | Wind Advisory | MFR | Siskiyou | 6 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Oregon, 2011Winter Storm Watches in California, 2011Every winter storm watch 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.