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Winter Storm Warning 19, NWS Medford, OR

December 5, 2019Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this winter storm warning at Dec 5, 2019, 1:17 PM PST for Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Dec 6, 2019, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for 35 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 5, 2019, 1:17 PM PST (21:17 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 6, 2019, 4:00 AM PST
Expired: Dec 7, 2019, 2:35 PM PST
In force: 35 hr
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR

County Siskiyou County, CA

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 4, 2:48 PM PST, 22 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 4, 2:48 PM PST, 22 hours 29 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 4, 8:25 PM PST	Dense Fog Advisory	MFR	Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine	14 hr
Dec 4, 8:25 PM PST	Freezing Fog Advisory	MFR	Klamath, Lake	14 hr
Dec 5, 1:17 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	MFR	Lake	57 hr
Dec 5, 1:44 PM PST	Gale Warning	MFR		26 hr
Dec 5, 1:44 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory	MFR		8 hr
Dec 5, 1:44 PM PST	Hazardous Seas Warning	MFR		47 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in California, 2019 Every winter storm warning in 2019

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.