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Areal Flood Warning 8, NWS Medford, OR

November 29, 2012Curry County, Josephine County, Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this areal flood warning at Nov 29, 2012, 6:50 AM PST for Curry County, Josephine County, Oregon. It was in force for 12 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 29, 2012, 6:50 AM PST (14:50 UTC)
Expired: Nov 29, 2012, 6:36 PM PST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Curry County, OR, Josephine County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:49 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

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 489 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 areal flood 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 areal flood warning went out at Nov 29, 3:45 AM PST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 29, 3:45 AM PST, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 29, 5:31 AM PST, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 29, 3:29 AM PST	Special Marine Warning	MFR		61 min
Nov 29, 5:41 AM PST	Areal Flood Warning	MFR	Curry, Josephine	13 hr
Nov 29, 11:31 AM PST	Gale Warning	MFR		3 hr
Nov 29, 11:31 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	MFR		27 hr
Nov 29, 11:38 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	MFR	Jackson	6 hr
Nov 29, 2:49 PM PST	Gale Watch	MFR		12 hr
Nov 29, 3:25 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	MFR	Jackson	2 hr
Nov 29, 11:17 AM PST	Areal Flood Warning	MFR	Siskiyou	8 hr
Nov 29, 11:27 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	MFR	Siskiyou	7 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Oregon, 2012 Every areal flood warning in 2012

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.