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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Medford, OR

February 13, 20147 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this high wind watch at Feb 13, 2014, 3:25 AM PST for 7 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Feb 15, 2014, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 13, 2014, 3:25 AM PST (11:25 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 15, 2014, 4:00 AM PST
Expired: Feb 14, 2014, 1:33 PM PST
In force
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR

Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Coos County, OR, Curry County, OR, Douglas County, OR, Jackson County, OR, Josephine County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:22 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

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 489 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: 0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 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 high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Feb 12, 8:43 PM PST, 6 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 8:43 PM PST, 6 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 12, 9:25 PM PST, 6 hours before

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Local storm report, Feb 12, 9:26 PM PST, 5 hours 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 13, 12:18 AM PST, 3 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
1218 AM PST THU FEB 13 2014

...TIME...  ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
...DATE...  ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1200 AM     HEAVY RAIN       2 SSE COOS BAY          43.36N 124.22W
02/13/2014  M1.55 INCH       COOS               OR   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HEAVY RAIN DURATION 24 HOURS OBSERVER
            LOCATION SOUTH OF COOS BAY

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NWS MEDFORD OR
IRIS SYSTEM

Local storm report, Feb 13, 12:20 AM PST, 3 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
1220 AM PST THU FEB 13 2014

...TIME...  ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
...DATE...  ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1130 PM     HEAVY RAIN       2 ESE ASHLAND           42.18N 122.66W
02/12/2014  M1.07 INCH       JACKSON            OR   NWS EMPLOYEE

            HEAVY RAIN DURATION 24 HOURS OBSERVER
            LOCATION 2 MI. S. OF ASHLAND AIRPORT

&&

NWS MEDFORD OR
IRIS SYSTEM

Local storm report, Feb 13, 12:21 AM PST, 3 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
1221 AM PST THU FEB 13 2014

...TIME...  ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
...DATE...  ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1200 AM     HEAVY RAIN       1 SSE ASHLAND           42.18N 122.69W
02/13/2014  M1.00 INCH       JACKSON            OR   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HEAVY RAIN DURATION 24 HOURS OBSERVER
            LOCATION IN TOWN SE

&&

NWS MEDFORD OR
IRIS SYSTEM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 13, 4:43 AM PST	Gale Warning	MFR		23 hr
Feb 13, 4:43 AM PST	Hazardous Seas Warning	MFR		23 hr
Feb 13, 4:43 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	MFR		29 hr
Feb 13, 4:43 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	MFR		5 hr
Feb 13, 4:43 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	MFR		50 hr
Feb 13, 9:30 AM PST	River Flood Watch	MFR	Coos, Curry, Douglas	24 hr
Feb 13, 9:30 AM PST	River Flood Watch	MFR	Coos, Curry, Douglas	24 hr
Feb 13, 3:47 PM PST	High Wind Warning	MFR	Klamath, Lake	22 hr
Feb 13, 3:47 PM PST	Wind Advisory	MFR	Siskiyou	22 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.