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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this freeze watch at May 25, 2016, 1:13 PM PDT for Klamath County, Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at May 27, 2016, 3:00 AM PDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2016, 1:13 PM PDT (20:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 27, 2016, 3:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- May 26, 2016, 1:50 PM PDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Klamath County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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
Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 347 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
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze watch went out at May 25, 9:00 AM PDT, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 9:00 AM PDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:43 AM PDT | Hazardous Seas Warning | MFR | 68 hr | |
| May 25, 2:43 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | MFR | 68 hr | |
| May 25, 1:13 PM PDT | Freeze Watch | MFR | Klamath | 48 hr |
| May 25, 3:41 PM PDT | Gale Watch | MFR | 11 hr | |
| May 25, 3:41 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | MFR | 7 days | |
| May 25, 3:41 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | MFR | 55 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Watches in California, 2016Freeze Watches in Oregon, 2016Every freeze watch in 2016
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.