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High Wind Warning 6, NWS Pendleton, OR
NWS Pendleton, OR issued this high wind warning at Feb 19, 2023, 2:16 PM PST for 6 counties in Oregon; 7 counties in Washington. It took effect at Feb 20, 2023, 6:00 PM PST. It was in force for 16 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
- Feb 19, 2023, 2:16 PM PST (22:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 20, 2023, 6:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2023, 9:36 AM PST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pendleton, OR
Counties Gilliam County, OR, Morrow County, OR, Sherman County, OR, Umatilla County, OR, Wasco County, OR, Wheeler County, OR, Benton County, WA, Columbia County, WA, Franklin County, WA, Kittitas County, WA, Klickitat County, WA, Walla Walla County, WA, Yakima County, WA
The radar
The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 329 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
- 1490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 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 warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at Feb 18, 2:21 PM PST, 23 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 2:21 PM PST, 23 hours 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pendleton, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 3:02 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | Deschutes, Jefferson, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco | 4 days |
| Feb 19, 2:17 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | Deschutes, Jefferson, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco | 7 hr |
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.