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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Medford, OR

March 3, 2013Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this winter storm watch at Mar 3, 2013, 1:27 PM PST for Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Mar 5, 2013, 1:00 PM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 2013, 1:27 PM PST (21:27 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 5, 2013, 1:00 PM PST
Expired: Mar 4, 2013, 3:07 PM PST
In force
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR

County Siskiyou County, CA

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Mar 3, 8:42 AM PST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 8:42 AM PST, 4 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 3, 1:24 PM PST, 3 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
Mar 3, 3:11 AM PST	Hazardous Seas Warning	MFR		19 hr
Mar 3, 3:16 AM PST	Frost Advisory	MFR	Coos, Curry, Douglas	29 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.