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Winter Storm Warning 7, NWS Pendleton, OR

December 16, 201511 counties in Oregon; Kittitas County, Klickitat County, Yakima County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this winter storm warning at Dec 16, 2015, 4:07 AM PST for 11 counties in Oregon; Kittitas County, Klickitat County, Yakima County, Washington. It took effect at Dec 16, 2015, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 30 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 16, 2015, 4:07 AM PST (12:07 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 16, 2015, 10:00 PM PST
Expired
Dec 18, 2015, 4:00 AM PST
In force
30 hr
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR

Counties Crook County, OR, Deschutes County, OR, Gilliam County, OR, Grant County, OR, Jefferson County, OR, Morrow County, OR, Sherman County, OR, Umatilla County, OR, Union County, OR, Wasco County, OR, Wheeler County, OR, Kittitas County, WA, Klickitat County, WA, Yakima County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:07 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 384 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 2015-12-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2015-12-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 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 winter storm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm warning went out at Dec 16, 3:52 AM PST, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 3:52 AM PST, 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 16, 4:07 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDTCrook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Jefferson, Morrow and 5 more58 hr
Dec 16, 1:00 PM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPDTUmatilla, Union, Wallowa5 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Oregon, 2015Winter Storm Warnings in Washington, 2015Every winter storm warning 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.