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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Portland, OR

October 14, 2016Pacific County, Washington

NWS Portland, OR issued this tornado warning at Oct 14, 2016, 6:37 AM PDT for Pacific County, Washington. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 14, 2016, 6:37 AM PDT (13:37 UTC)
Expired: Oct 14, 2016, 7:00 AM PDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Portland, OR
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pacific County, WA

The radar

The Langley Hill radar (KLGX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:38 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 207 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 63 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 337 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 396 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

967 
WFUS56 KPQR 141337
TORPQR
WAC049-141400-
/O.NEW.KPQR.TO.W.0002.161014T1337Z-161014T1400Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
637 AM PDT FRI OCT 14 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORTLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON...

* UNTIL 700 AM PDT.

* AT 636 AM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
  NEAR BAY CENTER...OR 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WESTPORT...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RAYMOND...SOUTH BEND...BAY CENTER AND TOKELAND. 

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS IN WASHINGTON...
 U. S. HIGHWAY 101 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 38 AND 66.
 STATE ROUTE 6 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 2.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4679 12354 4652 12384 4662 12405 4679 12391
TIME...MOT...LOC 1336Z 213DEG 47KT 4664 12389 

$$
SCHNEIDER

3 follow-up statements

966 
WWUS56 KPQR 141346
SVSPQR

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
646 AM PDT FRI OCT 14 2016

WAC049-141400-
/O.CON.KPQR.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-161014T1400Z/
PACIFIC WA-
646 AM PDT FRI OCT 14 2016

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM PDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC COUNTY...
    
AT 644 AM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF RAYMOND...OR 16 MILES SOUTH OF
ABERDEEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING
INTO GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY WASHINGTON IN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RAYMOND...SOUTH BEND...BAY CENTER AND TOKELAND. 

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS IN WASHINGTON...
 U. S. HIGHWAY 101 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 38 AND 66.
 STATE ROUTE 6 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 2.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4679 12354 4652 12384 4662 12405 4679 12391
TIME...MOT...LOC 1344Z 213DEG 47KT 4673 12380 

$$
SCHNEIDER

486 
WWUS56 KPQR 141355
SVSPQR

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
655 AM PDT FRI OCT 14 2016

WAC049-141401-
/O.EXP.KPQR.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-161014T1400Z/
PACIFIC WA-
655 AM PDT FRI OCT 14 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
700 AM PDT...
    
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED
AND MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA INTO GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY. 
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE TIME.
CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS, AND POSSIBLE
WATERSPOUTS OR TORNADOS ALONG AND HEAR THE SOUTH WASHINGTON COAST.

LAT...LON 4679 12354 4652 12384 4662 12405 4679 12391
TIME...MOT...LOC 1351Z 213DEG 47KT 4679 12374 

$$

SCHNEIDER

401 
WWUS56 KPQR 141356 CCA
SVSPQR

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
656 AM PDT FRI OCT 14 2016

WAC049-141401-
/O.EXP.KPQR.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-161014T1400Z/
PACIFIC WA-
656 AM PDT FRI OCT 14 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
700 AM PDT...
    
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED
AND MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA INTO GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY. 
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE AREA.
CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS...AND POSSIBLE
WATERSPOUTS OR TORNADOS ALONG AND HEAR THE SOUTH WASHINGTON COAST
EARLY THIS MORNING.

LAT...LON 4679 12354 4652 12384 4662 12405 4679 12391
TIME...MOT...LOC 1351Z 213DEG 47KT 4679 12374 

$$

SCHNEIDER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 13, 7:17 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PQR	Pacific, Wahkiakum	118 min
Oct 14, 4:26 AM PDT	Tornado Warning	PQR	Pacific	19 min
Oct 14, 8:27 AM PDT	High Surf Advisory	PQR		13 hr
Oct 14, 9:11 AM PDT	Tornado Warning	PQR	Pacific	34 min
Oct 14, 9:13 AM PDT	High Wind Warning	PQR		5 hr
Oct 14, 9:51 AM PDT	Tornado Warning	PQR	Pacific	24 min
Oct 14, 10:42 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PQR	Pacific	48 min
Oct 14, 11:11 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PQR	Pacific, Wahkiakum	34 min
Oct 14, 11:47 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PQR	Pacific, Wahkiakum	43 min
Oct 14, 12:23 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	PQR	Clark	52 min
Oct 14, 2:52 PM PDT	High Wind Warning	PQR		27 hr

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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.