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Excessive Heat Watch 3, NWS Medford, OR

June 22, 20217 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this excessive heat watch at Jun 22, 2021, 3:12 PM PDT for 7 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Jun 25, 2021, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2021, 3:12 PM PDT (22:12 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 25, 2021, 2:00 PM PDT
Expired
Jun 23, 2021, 2:20 PM PDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Medford, OR

Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Coos County, OR, Curry County, OR, Douglas County, OR, Jackson County, OR, Josephine County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR

The nearest sounding before it

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 23 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 12:00Z on 2021-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 88 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2021-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-457 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 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 excessive heat watch 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 excessive heat watch went out at Jun 22, 8:47 AM PDT, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 8:47 AM PDT, 6 hours 25 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 2:34 PM PDTRed Flag WarningMFRDouglas, Harney, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake32 hr
Jun 22, 4:13 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRJackson47 min

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.