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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pendleton, OR

August 5, 2024Union County, Wallowa County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2024, 4:00 PM PDT for Union County, Wallowa County, Oregon. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 2024, 4:00 PM PDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2024, 4:48 PM PDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

Counties Union County, OR, Wallowa County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 267 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 2024-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 26 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2024-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 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
26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-419 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 5, 3:55 PM PDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 3:55 PM PDT, 5 minutes before
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In the hours before

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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:42 PM PDT, 18 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 5, 3:51 PM PDT, 9 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 5:29 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTWheeler46 min
Aug 4, 5:59 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTGilliam, Sherman, Wasco, Wheeler46 min
Aug 4, 6:02 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTJefferson43 min
Aug 4, 6:21 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTJefferson39 min
Aug 4, 6:46 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTJefferson44 min
Aug 4, 6:50 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTMorrow40 min
Aug 4, 6:58 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTGrant, Morrow, Umatilla, Wheeler47 min
Aug 4, 7:23 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTWheeler37 min
Aug 4, 7:38 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTGrant, Umatilla52 min
Aug 4, 8:43 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTUnion32 min
Aug 4, 8:46 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTSherman29 min
Aug 4, 9:14 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTUnion46 min
Aug 4, 9:29 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTGrant46 min
Aug 4, 10:08 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTGrant37 min
Aug 4, 10:45 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTUnion45 min
Aug 4, 11:27 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTUnion48 min
Aug 5, 3:46 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT37 hr
Aug 5, 7:20 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTWallowa25 min
Aug 5, 2:55 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTWallowa35 min
Aug 5, 3:17 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTWallowa28 min
Aug 5, 3:42 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTUnion33 min
Aug 5, 4:33 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTWallowa57 min
Aug 5, 4:48 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTWallowa42 min
Aug 5, 4:52 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDTWallowa41 min
Aug 5, 5:58 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTColumbia47 min

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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.