Alert archive / Oregon / High Surf Advisories in 2020

High Surf Advisory 5, NWS Medford, OR

November 14, 2020Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this high surf advisory at Nov 14, 2020, 1:35 PM PST for Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Oregon. It took effect at Nov 14, 2020, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 14, 2020, 1:35 PM PST (21:35 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 14, 2020, 4:00 PM PST
Expired: Nov 15, 2020, 4:00 AM PST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR

Counties Coos County, OR, Curry County, OR, Douglas County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf 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 high surf advisory went out at Nov 14, 8:34 AM PST, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 8:34 AM PST, 5 hours 1 minute before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 13, 10:45 PM PST	High Wind Warning	MFR	Coos, Curry, Douglas, Klamath, Lake	29 hr
Nov 14, 3:11 AM PST	Wind Advisory	MFR	Coos, Curry, Douglas, Josephine, Klamath, Lake	25 hr
Nov 14, 3:29 AM PST	Gale Watch	MFR		49 hr
Nov 14, 12:37 PM PST	Flood Watch	MFR	Curry, Josephine	30 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in Oregon, 2020 Every high surf advisory in 2020

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.