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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Pendleton, OR

February 24, 202110 counties in Oregon; Columbia County, Walla Walla County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this winter storm watch at Feb 24, 2021, 2:45 AM PST for 10 counties in Oregon; Columbia County, Walla Walla County, Washington. It took effect at Feb 25, 2021, 1:00 AM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 24, 2021, 2:45 AM PST (10:45 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 25, 2021, 1:00 AM PST
Expired
Feb 24, 2021, 7:24 PM PST
In force
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR

Counties Deschutes County, OR, Gilliam County, OR, Grant County, OR, Jefferson County, OR, Morrow County, OR, Umatilla County, OR, Union County, OR, Wallowa County, OR, Wasco County, OR, Wheeler County, OR, Columbia County, WA, Walla Walla County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:47 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

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 358 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, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 2021-02-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 68 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, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 2021-02-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 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
68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1274 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 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 storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 23, 8:36 PM PST, 6 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 8:36 PM PST, 6 hours 9 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 24, 2:33 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTCrook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Jefferson, Morrow and 5 more67 hr
Feb 24, 2:34 PM PSTWind AdvisoryPDTCrook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Jefferson, Morrow and 5 more51 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Oregon, 2021Winter Storm Watches in Washington, 2021Every winter storm watch 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.