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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pendleton, OR

July 19, 2012Benton County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this special weather statement at Jul 19, 2012, 5:21 PM PDT for Benton County, Washington. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 2012, 5:21 PM PDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2012, 5:45 PM PDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR

County Benton County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 287 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, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 2012-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 239 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 2012-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

386 
WWUS86 KPDT 200021
SPSPDT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
521 PM PDT THU JUL 19 2012

ORZ044-WAZ028-200045-
LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN OF OREGON OR-LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN OF WASHINGTON
WA-
521 PM PDT THU JUL 19 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN WALLA
WALLA...NORTHWESTERN UMATILLA AND SOUTHEASTERN BENTON COUNTIES UNTIL
545 PM PDT...

AT 515 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR STANFIELD...OR 6 MILES EAST OF HERMISTON...
MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 4615 11935 4615 11890 4569 11904 4570 11931
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 180DEG 23KT 4586 11915

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 5:44 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTGrant31 min
Jul 19, 6:31 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTMorrow29 min
Jul 20, 11:40 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTMorrow65 min
Jul 20, 12:15 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTUmatilla60 min
Jul 20, 12:15 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUmatilla60 min
Jul 20, 12:42 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUmatilla63 min
Jul 20, 12:53 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUmatilla, Union67 min
Jul 20, 1:34 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTUmatilla, Union, Wallowa56 min
Jul 19, 7:45 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTFranklin30 min
Jul 20, 9:02 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTKittitas58 min
Jul 20, 11:18 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTAsotin27 min
Jul 20, 11:58 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTAsotin32 min
Jul 20, 12:30 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTKittitas60 min
Jul 20, 12:30 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTBenton, Yakima60 min
Jul 20, 2:18 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTColumbia25 min

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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.