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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this wind advisory at Feb 18, 2024, 10:53 AM PST for Jackson County, Oregon; Siskiyou County, California. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2024, 10:53 AM PST (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2024, 8:28 PM PST
- In force
- 10 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 18:51 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
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 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
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 18, 3:41 AM PST, 7 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 3:41 AM PST, 7 hours 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 2:12 AM PST | Gale Watch | MFR | 12 hr | |
| Feb 18, 2:13 PM PST | Gale Warning | MFR | 56 hr | |
| Feb 17, 11:02 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | MFR | Siskiyou | 69 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.