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Fire Weather Watch 24, NWS Medford, OR

July 28, 20217 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this fire weather watch at Jul 28, 2021, 2:25 PM PDT for 7 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Jul 30, 2021, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 2021, 2:25 PM PDT (21:25 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 30, 2021, 2:00 PM PDT
Expired
Jul 29, 2021, 12:06 PM PDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Medford, OR

Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Douglas County, OR, Harney County, OR, Jackson County, OR, Josephine County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR, Lane County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 458 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2021-07-28Temperature 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2021-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 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
2712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-22 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 fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Jul 28, 8:59 AM PDT, 5 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 8:59 AM PDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 2:26 AM PDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMFR8 days
Jul 28, 3:01 AM PDTExcessive Heat WarningMFRCoos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine65 hr
Jul 28, 5:00 AM PDTRed Flag WarningMFRDouglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake, Lane42 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.