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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Pendleton, OR

August 22, 2023Wallowa County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 2023, 6:26 PM PDT for Wallowa County, Oregon. It was in force for 49 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
Aug 22, 2023, 6:26 PM PDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2023, 7:15 PM PDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Wallowa County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 237 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2023-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 516 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2023-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
516 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
288 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 6:38 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPDTWallowa52 min

Nearby

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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.