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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this high wind watch at Jan 7, 2023, 10:21 PM PST for Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Oregon. It took effect at Jan 9, 2023, 1:00 AM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 2023, 10:21 PM PST (06:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 9, 2023, 1:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2023, 3:44 AM PST
- In force
- 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 06:25 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 00:00Z, 6.4 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
- 1546 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 407 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 wind watch 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 wind watch went out at Jan 7, 8:37 PM PST, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 8:37 PM PST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 3:44 AM PST | High Wind Warning | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas | 30 hr |
| Jan 8, 5:09 AM PST | Wind Advisory | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath | 31 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:27 PM PST | Gale Watch | MFR | 48 hr | |
| Jan 8, 2:27 PM PST | Hazardous Seas Warning | MFR | 38 hr | |
| Jan 8, 6:44 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | MFR | Siskiyou | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:13 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | MFR | Siskiyou | 21 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.