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Red Flag Warning 15, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this red flag warning at Jul 24, 2024, 1:28 PM PDT for Harney County, Klamath County, Lake County, Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Jul 25, 2024, 1:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Jul 24, 2024, 1:28 PM PDT (20:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 25, 2024, 1:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2024, 9:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Harney County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 381 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
- 150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2412 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.