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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Medford, OR

June 25, 2023Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2023, 3:51 PM PDT for Siskiyou County, California. It was in force for 24 min. 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 25, 2023, 3:51 PM PDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2023, 4:15 PM PDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Medford, OR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Siskiyou County, CA

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 89 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2023-06-25Temperature 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2023-06-25The 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
1700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 5:08 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRJosephine37 min
Jun 25, 3:45 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR30 min
Jun 24, 6:36 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRSiskiyou24 min
Jun 25, 4:14 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRSiskiyou31 min
Jun 25, 4:42 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRSiskiyou33 min

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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.