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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this winter storm warning at Jan 11, 2024, 3:34 AM PST for 5 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Jan 11, 2024, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 53 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
- Jan 11, 2024, 3:34 AM PST (11:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 11, 2024, 10:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2024, 3:28 AM PST
- In force
- 53 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Douglas County, OR, Jackson County, OR, Josephine County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:38 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 454 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
- 1084 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 107 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 432 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 10, 9:45 PM PST, 5 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 10, 9:45 PM PST, 5 hours 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Weather Advisory | MFR | Klamath, Lake | 10 hr |
| Jan 11, 9:45 AM PST | River Flood Watch | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas | 48 hr |
| Jan 11, 1:14 PM PST | High Wind Watch | MFR | Siskiyou | 24 hr |
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.