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Blizzard Warning 1, NWS Pendleton, OR
NWS Pendleton, OR issued this blizzard warning at Jan 7, 2024, 2:38 PM PST for 6 counties in Oregon; 5 counties in Washington. It took effect at Jan 8, 2024, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 42 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 7, 2024, 2:38 PM PST (22:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 8, 2024, 4:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2024, 10:24 AM PST
- In force
- 42 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pendleton, OR
Counties Deschutes County, OR, Jefferson County, OR, Umatilla County, OR, Union County, OR, Wallowa County, OR, Wasco County, OR, Columbia County, WA, Kittitas County, WA, Klickitat County, WA, Walla Walla County, WA, Yakima County, WA
The radar
The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 336 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
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this blizzard warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this blizzard warning went out at Jan 7, 9:24 AM PST, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 9:24 AM PST, 5 hours 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pendleton, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jan 7, 3:12 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Jefferson, Morrow and 5 more | 11 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:38 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Jefferson, Morrow and 5 more | 6 days |
| Jan 7, 2:38 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Jefferson, Morrow and 5 more | 3 days |
| Jan 7, 2:41 PM PST | High Wind Warning | PDT | Gilliam, Morrow, Umatilla, Wheeler | 60 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:41 PM PST | Wind Advisory | PDT | Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Jefferson, Morrow and 5 more | 60 hr |
Nearby
Blizzard Warnings in Oregon, 2024Blizzard Warnings in Washington, 2024Every blizzard warning in 2024
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.