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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Pendleton, OR

November 3, 2024Gilliam County, Sherman County, Wasco County, Oregon; Kittitas County, Klickitat County, Yakima County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this high wind warning at Nov 3, 2024, 1:42 PM PST for Gilliam County, Sherman County, Wasco County, Oregon; Kittitas County, Klickitat County, Yakima County, Washington. It took effect at Nov 4, 2024, 1:00 PM PST. It was in force for 18 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
Nov 3, 2024, 1:42 PM PST (21:42 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 4, 2024, 1:00 PM PST
Expired
Nov 5, 2024, 7:00 AM PST
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR

Counties Gilliam County, OR, Sherman County, OR, Wasco County, OR, Kittitas County, WA, Klickitat County, WA, Yakima County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 384 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2024-11-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2024-11-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Nov 3, 10:02 AM PST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 10:02 AM PST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 3, 10:25 AM PST, 3 hours 17 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pendleton, OR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 3, 1:48 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchPDTGilliam, Sherman, Wasco12 hr
Nov 3, 7:05 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPDTUmatilla, Union, Wallowa4 hr
Nov 3, 1:42 PM PSTWind AdvisoryPDTCrook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Jefferson, Morrow, Sherman and 3 more41 hr
Nov 3, 1:52 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDTUmatilla, Union, Wallowa44 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.