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Winter Weather Advisory 2, NWS Pendleton, OR

January 3, 202110 counties in Oregon; Columbia County, Walla Walla County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 3, 2021, 2:42 PM PST for 10 counties in Oregon; Columbia County, Walla Walla County, Washington. It took effect at Jan 3, 2021, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 3, 2021, 2:42 PM PST (22:42 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 3, 2021, 10:00 PM PST
Expired
Jan 5, 2021, 5:00 AM PST
In force
31 hr
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 22:39 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

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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 12:00Z on 2021-01-03Temperature 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, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2021-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 508 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
508 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
487 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.