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High Surf Warning 1, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this high surf warning at Dec 8, 2022, 9:19 AM PST for Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Oregon. It took effect at Dec 9, 2022, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for 18 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 8, 2022, 9:19 AM PST (17:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 9, 2022, 10:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2022, 4:00 AM PST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Coos County, OR, Curry County, OR, Douglas County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 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
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf warning 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 high surf warning went out at Dec 8, 8:53 AM PST, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 8, 8:53 AM PST, 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 2:23 AM PST | Storm Warning | MFR | 50 hr | |
| Dec 8, 11:46 AM PST | High Wind Warning | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas | 43 hr |
| Dec 8, 11:46 AM PST | Wind Advisory | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Lake | 51 hr |
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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.