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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this wind advisory at Jan 1, 2024, 2:11 PM PST for Jackson County, Oregon; Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Jan 2, 2024, 7:00 AM PST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 1, 2024, 2:11 PM PST (22:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 2, 2024, 7:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2024, 7:00 PM PST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Siskiyou County, CA, Jackson County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2:25 AM PST | Gale Warning | MFR | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.