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High Wind Watch 6, NWS Medford, OR

December 1, 20155 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this high wind watch at Dec 1, 2015, 2:55 AM PST for 5 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Dec 2, 2015, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 1, 2015, 2:55 AM PST (10:55 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 2, 2015, 10:00 PM PST
Expired: Dec 1, 2015, 3:50 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, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:00 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.

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 1, 2:40 AM PST, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 1, 2:40 AM PST, 15 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
Dec 1, 3:03 AM PST	Storm Watch	MFR		12 hr
Dec 1, 3:00 PM PST	Hazardous Seas Warning	MFR		28 hr
Dec 1, 3:00 PM PST	Storm Warning	MFR		48 hr
Dec 1, 3:50 PM PST	High Wind Warning	MFR	Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and 1 more	54 hr
Dec 1, 3:50 PM PST	Wind Advisory	MFR	Jackson, Klamath, Lake	54 hr
Dec 1, 3:51 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	MFR	Klamath, Lake	15 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Oregon, 2015 High Wind Watches in California, 2015 Every high wind watch in 2015

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.