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Dense Smoke Advisory 2, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this dense smoke advisory at Aug 27, 2017, 8:40 AM PDT for Curry County, Oregon. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2017, 8:40 AM PDT (15:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2017, 12:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
County Curry County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 2309 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this dense smoke 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 dense smoke advisory went out at Aug 27, 7:51 AM PDT, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 7:51 AM PDT, 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2:34 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine | 45 hr |
| Aug 27, 7:37 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | MFR | 3 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.