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High Surf Advisory 14, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this high surf advisory at Mar 5, 2016, 1:14 AM PST for Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Oregon. It took effect at Mar 5, 2016, 2:00 PM PST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2016, 1:14 AM PST (09:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 5, 2016, 2:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2016, 8:27 PM PST
- In force
- 6 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 09:15 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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 1708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 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 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 Mar 4, 10:18 PM PST, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 10:18 PM PST, 2 hours 56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2:00 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | MFR | Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake | 38 hr |
Nearby
High Surf Advisories in Oregon, 2016Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.