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High Surf Advisory 5, NWS Medford, OR

November 13, 2015Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this high surf advisory at Nov 13, 2015, 3:04 PM PST for Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Oregon. It took effect at Nov 15, 2015, 1:00 AM PST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 13, 2015, 3:04 PM PST (23:04 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 15, 2015, 1:00 AM PST
Expired
Nov 15, 2015, 4:00 PM PST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Medford, OR

Counties Coos County, OR, Curry County, OR, Douglas County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 108 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2015-11-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2015-11-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 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 surf advisory 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 surf advisory went out at Nov 13, 3:02 PM PST, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 13, 3:02 PM PST, 2 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 13, 2:15 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRCoos, Curry, Douglas, Klamath, Lake9 hr
Nov 13, 11:13 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningMFRCoos, Curry, Douglas, Klamath, Lake44 hr
Nov 13, 11:13 AM PSTWind AdvisoryMFRKlamath, Lake44 hr
Nov 13, 2:42 PM PSTGale WarningMFR40 hr
Nov 13, 2:42 PM PSTStorm WarningMFR34 hr
Nov 13, 3:04 PM PSTHigh Surf WarningMFRCoos, Curry, Douglas34 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.