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High Wind Watch 14, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this high wind watch at Dec 20, 2015, 4:27 AM PST for 4 counties in Oregon. It took effect at Dec 21, 2015, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 20, 2015, 4:27 AM PST (12:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 21, 2015, 4:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Dec 20, 2015, 2:45 PM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Coos County, OR, Curry County, OR, Douglas County, OR, Lake County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:26 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 526 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Dec 19, 9:52 PM PST, 6 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 9:52 PM PST, 6 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20, 4:58 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | MFR | Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake | 10 hr |
| Dec 20, 9:10 AM PST | River Flood Warning | MFR | Curry | 3 days |
| Dec 20, 9:30 AM PST | River Flood Warning | MFR | Coos | 71 hr |
| Dec 20, 2:45 PM PST | High Wind Warning | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas | 22 hr |
| Dec 20, 2:56 PM PST | Gale Warning | MFR | 19 hr | |
| Dec 20, 2:56 PM PST | Small Craft Advisory | MFR | 19 hr | |
| Dec 20, 2:56 PM PST | Small Craft Advisory | MFR | 19 hr | |
| Dec 20, 2:56 PM PST | Storm Warning | MFR | 19 hr | |
| Dec 20, 2:56 PM PST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | MFR | 48 hr | |
| Dec 20, 3:19 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | MFR | Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake | 18 hr |
| Dec 20, 3:19 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | MFR | Klamath, Lake | 18 hr |
| Dec 20, 3:28 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas | 20 hr |
| Dec 20, 2:45 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.