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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Pendleton, OR

June 24, 202112 counties in Oregon; 7 counties in Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this excessive heat warning at Jun 24, 2021, 9:00 AM PDT for 12 counties in Oregon; 7 counties in Washington. It took effect at Jun 25, 2021, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 7 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 2021, 9:00 AM PDT (16:00 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 25, 2021, 2:00 PM PDT
Expired
Jul 2, 2021, 1:43 PM PDT
In force
7 days
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR

Counties Crook County, OR, Deschutes County, OR, Gilliam County, OR, Grant County, OR, Jefferson County, OR, Morrow County, OR, Sherman County, OR, Umatilla County, OR, Union County, OR, Wallowa County, OR, Wasco County, OR, Wheeler County, OR, Benton County, WA, Columbia County, WA, Franklin County, WA, Kittitas County, WA, Klickitat County, WA, Walla Walla County, WA, Yakima County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 351 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 12:00Z on 2021-06-24Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2021-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 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
2667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 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 warning 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 excessive heat warning went out at Jun 24, 2:45 AM PDT, 6 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:45 AM PDT, 6 hours 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 5:08 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTWallowa52 min
Jun 23, 5:54 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTJefferson51 min
Jun 23, 5:56 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTCrook, Deschutes, Jefferson49 min

Nearby

Excessive Heat Warnings in Oregon, 2021Excessive Heat Warnings in Washington, 2021Every excessive heat warning in 2021

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.