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Wind Advisory 35, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this wind advisory at Dec 19, 2024, 12:44 PM PST for Jackson County, Klamath County, Lake County, Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Dec 20, 2024, 7:00 PM PST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 19, 2024, 12:44 PM PST (20:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 20, 2024, 7:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Dec 21, 2024, 1:13 PM PST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Jackson County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 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 Dec 19, 9:46 AM PST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 9:46 AM PST, 2 hours 58 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 2:08 PM PST | Gale Watch | MFR | 12 hr | |
| Dec 19, 2:08 PM PST | Gale Warning | MFR | 44 hr | |
| Dec 19, 2:08 PM PST | Hazardous Seas Warning | MFR | 35 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.