Alert archive / Oregon / High Surf Advisories in 2016

High Surf Advisory 11, NWS Medford, OR

February 16, 2016Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this high surf advisory at Feb 16, 2016, 3:08 PM PST for Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Oregon. It took effect at Feb 18, 2016, 6:00 AM PST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 16, 2016, 3:08 PM PST (23:08 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 18, 2016, 6:00 AM PST
Expired: Feb 18, 2016, 10:00 PM PST
In force: 16 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 23:09 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.

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 Feb 16, 3:01 PM PST, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 3:01 PM PST, 7 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 16, 2:22 AM PST	High Wind Watch	MFR	Klamath, Lake	12 hr
Feb 16, 2:44 PM PST	High Wind Warning	MFR	Klamath, Lake	31 hr
Feb 16, 2:45 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	MFR	Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake	49 hr
Feb 16, 2:45 PM PST	Winter Storm Watch	MFR	Siskiyou	12 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in Oregon, 2016 Every high surf advisory 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.