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Wind Advisory 24, NWS Pendleton, OR

September 6, 2020Morrow County, Umatilla County, Oregon; 6 counties in Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this wind advisory at Sep 6, 2020, 4:29 AM PDT for Morrow County, Umatilla County, Oregon; 6 counties in Washington. It took effect at Sep 7, 2020, 9:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 6, 2020, 4:29 AM PDT (11:29 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 7, 2020, 9:00 AM PDT
Expired
Sep 7, 2020, 8:00 PM PDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR

Counties Morrow County, OR, Umatilla County, OR, Benton County, WA, Franklin County, WA, Kittitas County, WA, Klickitat County, WA, Walla Walla County, WA, Yakima County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:28 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 399 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2020-09-06Temperature 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2020-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 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 wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Sep 6, 3:43 AM PDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 3:43 AM PDT, 46 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 4:38 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT66 hr
Sep 6, 1:37 PM PDTBlowing Dust AdvisoryPDTGilliam, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Wasco, Wheeler30 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.