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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Medford, OR

January 11, 2024Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this high wind watch at Jan 11, 2024, 1:14 PM PST for Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Jan 13, 2024, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 11, 2024, 1:14 PM PST (21:14 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 13, 2024, 10:00 AM PST
Expired: Jan 12, 2024, 1:20 PM PST
In force
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR

County Siskiyou County, CA

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 11, 9:22 AM PST, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 9:22 AM PST, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 11, 11:35 AM PST, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 11, 2:08 AM PST	Gale Watch	MFR		35 hr
Jan 11, 2:08 AM PST	Hazardous Seas Watch	MFR		12 hr
Jan 11, 3:34 AM PST	Winter Storm Warning	MFR	Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake	72 hr
Jan 11, 3:34 AM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	MFR	Klamath, Lake	10 hr
Jan 11, 9:45 AM PST	River Flood Watch	MFR	Coos, Curry, Douglas	48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.