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Winter Storm Warning 9, NWS Medford, OR

February 13, 2019Curry County, Josephine County, Oregon; Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this winter storm warning at Feb 13, 2019, 2:30 PM PST for Curry County, Josephine County, Oregon; Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Feb 14, 2019, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 58 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: Feb 13, 2019, 2:30 PM PST (22:30 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 14, 2019, 4:00 PM PST
Expired: Feb 17, 2019, 2:24 AM PST
In force: 58 hr
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR

Counties Siskiyou County, CA, Curry County, OR, Josephine County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 58 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 657 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Feb 13, 9:15 AM PST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 9:15 AM PST, 5 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 13, 8:46 AM PST, 5 hours 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
846 AM PST WED FEB 13 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0845 AM     SNOW             4 WSW KLAMATH FALLS     42.19N 121.84W
02/13/2019  M7.0 INCH        KLAMATH            OR   TRAINED SPOTTER

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Local storm report, Feb 13, 9:06 AM PST, 5 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 13, 9:18 AM PST, 5 hours 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 13, 9:42 AM PST, 4 hours 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
942 AM PST WED FEB 13 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0941 AM     SNOW             6 SE SELMA              42.23N 123.52W
02/13/2019  M4.0 INCH        JOSEPHINE          OR   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TOTAL WAS FROM 8 AM TO 8 AM PST. LIQUID
            EQUIV OF 2.03.

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MNF

Local storm report, Feb 13, 12:44 PM PST, 1 hour 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
1244 PM PST WED FEB 13 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1200 PM     SNOW             3 NW MOUNT SHASTA       41.35N 122.36W
02/13/2019  M5.0 INCH        SISKIYOU           CA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            19 INCHES STORM TOTAL SNOW. STATION
            ELEVATION: 3910 FT.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 13, 7:06 AM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	MFR	Curry, Josephine	114 min
Feb 13, 2:30 PM PST	Hazardous Seas Warning	MFR		59 hr
Feb 13, 2:30 PM PST	High Surf Advisory	MFR	Coos, Curry, Douglas	68 hr
Feb 13, 2:30 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	MFR	Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and 1 more	4 days
Feb 13, 3:28 PM PST	Wind Advisory	MFR	Lake	36 hr
Feb 13, 8:52 AM PST	High Wind Warning	MFR	Siskiyou	4 hr
Feb 13, 12:30 PM PST	Flood Watch	MFR	Siskiyou	25 hr
Feb 13, 3:28 PM PST	High Wind Warning	MFR	Modoc	27 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Oregon, 2019 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.