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Winter Weather Advisory 9, NWS Medford, OR

January 25, 20217 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 25, 2021, 5:23 AM PST for 7 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Jan 26, 2021, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for 50 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 25, 2021, 5:23 AM PST (13:23 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 26, 2021, 10:00 AM PST
Expired
Jan 28, 2021, 12:00 PM PST
In force
50 hr
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 radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:26 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 489 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 2021-01-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 2021-01-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
555 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 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 winter weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Jan 24, 10:32 PM PST, 6 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 10:32 PM PST, 6 hours 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 24, 9:59 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryMFRCoos, Curry, Douglas, Josephine12 hr
Jan 25, 2:33 AM PSTStorm WatchMFR11 hr
Jan 25, 5:23 AM PSTWind AdvisoryMFRKlamath, Lake32 hr
Jan 25, 1:52 PM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryMFR7 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.