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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2020, 7:19 PM PDT for Siskiyou County, California. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2020, 7:19 PM PDT (02:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2020, 7:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Siskiyou County, CA
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:21 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 430 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 26, 6:29 PM PDT, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 6:29 PM PDT, 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2:01 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | MFR | 51 hr | |
| Jul 27, 2:20 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | MFR | Harney, Klamath, Lake | 30 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:43 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MFR | 47 min | |
| Jul 26, 7:29 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFR | Siskiyou | 31 min |
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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.