Alert archive / Oregon / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this red flag warning at Jun 29, 2012, 2:46 PM PDT for Harney County, Klamath County, Lake County, Oregon. It took effect at Jun 30, 2012, 2:00 PM 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
- Jun 29, 2012, 2:46 PM PDT (21:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 30, 2012, 2:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2012, 8:09 PM PDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Harney County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 213 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
688 WWUS86 KMFR 292146 RFWMFR URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 246 PM PDT FRI JUN 29 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 11 PM PDT SATURDAY FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF WINEMA AND FREMONT NATIONAL FORESTS... .AN INCOMING COLD FRONT WILL PROMOTE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY WINDS OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF WINEMA AND FREMONT NATIONAL FORESTS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO DEVELOP AROUND THE WARNING AREA...BUT THE FIRE DANGER THERE IS ONLY MODERATE. ORZ624-625-301430- /O.NEW.KMFR.FW.W.0002.120630T2100Z-120701T0600Z/ KLAMATH BASIN AND THE FREMONT-WINEMA NATIONAL FOREST- SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON DESERT INCLUDING THE BLM LAND IN EASTERN LAKE AND WESTERN HARNEY COUNTIES- 246 PM PDT FRI JUN 29 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 11 PM PDT SATURDAY FOR LIGHTNING WITH INSUFFICIENT MOISTURE FOR FIRE ZONES 624 AND 625...INCLUDING PORTIONS OF THE WINEMA AND FREMONT NATIONAL FORESTS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEDFORD HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 11 PM PDT SATURDAY. * AFFECTED AREA: FIRE ZONES 624 AND 625 * THUNDERSTORMS...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLE NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH. && $$ VISIT US AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MEDFORD STOCKTON
3 follow-up statements
253 WWUS86 KMFR 301200 RFWMFR URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 500 AM PDT SAT JUN 30 2012 .AN INCOMING COLD FRONT WILL PROMOTE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY WINDS OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF WINEMA AND FREMONT NATIONAL FORESTS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO DEVELOP AROUND THE WARNING AREA...BUT THE FIRE DANGER THERE IS ONLY MODERATE. ORZ624-625-010000- /O.CON.KMFR.FW.W.0002.120630T2100Z-120701T0600Z/ KLAMATH BASIN AND THE FREMONT-WINEMA NATIONAL FOREST- SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON DESERT INCLUDING THE BLM LAND IN EASTERN LAKE AND WESTERN HARNEY COUNTIES- 500 AM PDT SAT JUN 30 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR LIGHTNING WITH INSUFFICIENT MOISTURE FOR FIRE ZONES 624 AND 625... * AFFECTED AREA: FIRE ZONES 624 AND 625 * THUNDERSTORMS...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLENEAR THUNDERSTORMS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH. && $$ VISIT US AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MEDFORD
877 WWUS86 KMFR 302140 RFWMFR URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 240 PM PDT SAT JUN 30 2012 ORZ624-625-010600- /O.CON.KMFR.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120701T0600Z/ KLAMATH BASIN AND THE FREMONT-WINEMA NATIONAL FOREST- SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON DESERT INCLUDING THE BLM LAND IN EASTERN LAKE AND WESTERN HARNEY COUNTIES- 240 PM PDT SAT JUN 30 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR LIGHTNING WITH INSUFFICIENT MOISTURE FOR FIRE ZONES 624 AND 625...INCLUDING THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF WINEMA AND FREMONT NATIONAL FORESTS... * AFFECTED AREA: FIRE ZONES 624 AND 625 * THUNDERSTORMS...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLE NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH. && $$ VISIT US AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MEDFORD
188 WWUS86 KMFR 010309 RFWMFR URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 809 PM PDT SAT JUN 30 2012 ORZ624-625-010415- /O.CAN.KMFR.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120701T0600Z/ KLAMATH BASIN AND THE FREMONT-WINEMA NATIONAL FOREST- SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON DESERT INCLUDING THE BLM LAND IN EASTERN LAKE AND WESTERN HARNEY COUNTIES- 809 PM PDT SAT JUN 30 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR LIGHTNING WITH INSUFFICIENT MOISTURE FOR FIRE ZONES 624 AND 625...INCLUDING THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF WINEMA AND FREMONT NATIONAL FORESTS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEDFORD HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM MAY CONTINUE INTO THE LATE EVENING...AND OVERNIGHT IN LAKE...MODOC KLAMATH AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF SISKIYOU COUNTY. $$ VISIT US AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MEDFORD
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.