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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Pendleton, OR

April 6, 20195 counties in Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this high wind watch at Apr 6, 2019, 3:10 AM PDT for 5 counties in Oregon. It took effect at Apr 7, 2019, 12:00 AM PDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 6, 2019, 3:10 AM PDT (10:10 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 7, 2019, 12:00 AM PDT
Expired
Apr 6, 2019, 12:47 PM PDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR

Counties Crook County, OR, Deschutes County, OR, Jefferson County, OR, Sherman County, OR, Wasco County, OR

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 199 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:12 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 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 295 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2019-04-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2019-04-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 6, 12:34 PM PDTRiver Flood WatchPDTGrant, Jefferson, Morrow, Wasco, Wheeler6 days
Apr 6, 12:34 PM PDTRiver Flood WatchPDTUmatilla, Union, Wallowa59 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.