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Flood Watch 4, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this flood watch at Feb 7, 2017, 4:20 AM PST for 7 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Feb 8, 2017, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for 38 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 7, 2017, 4:20 AM PST (12:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 8, 2017, 4:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Feb 9, 2017, 6:20 PM PST
- In force
- 38 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Coos County, OR, Curry County, OR, Douglas County, OR, Jackson County, OR, Josephine County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:22 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
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 688 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood 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 flood watch went out at Feb 7, 4:13 AM PST, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 7, 4:13 AM PST, 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 3:18 AM PST | High Wind Watch | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas, Klamath, Lake | 12 hr |
| Feb 7, 3:18 AM PST | High Wind Warning | MFR | Klamath, Lake | 18 hr |
| Feb 7, 8:37 AM PST | River Flood Watch | MFR | Klamath, Lake | 30 hr |
| Feb 7, 3:07 PM PST | Gale Warning | MFR | 43 hr | |
| Feb 7, 3:07 PM PST | Small Craft Advisory | MFR | 25 hr | |
| Feb 7, 3:07 PM PST | Storm Watch | MFR | 12 hr | |
| Feb 7, 3:18 PM PST | High Wind Watch | MFR | Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath | 12 hr |
| Feb 7, 3:18 PM PST | High Wind Warning | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and 1 more | 51 hr |
| Feb 7, 3:18 PM PST | Wind Advisory | MFR | Klamath, Lake | 6 hr |
| Feb 7, 3:18 PM PST | Wind Advisory | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and 1 more | 51 hr |
| Feb 6, 7:04 PM PST | River Flood Watch | MFR | Modoc | 2 hr |
| Feb 6, 9:11 PM PST | River Flood Warning | MFR | Modoc | 6 days |
| Feb 7, 8:37 AM PST | River Flood Watch | MFR | Siskiyou | 30 hr |
| Feb 7, 8:37 AM PST | River Flood Watch | MFR | Siskiyou | 30 hr |
Nearby
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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.