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Wind Advisory 38, NWS Pendleton, OR

November 3, 20249 counties in Oregon; 6 counties in Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this wind advisory at Nov 3, 2024, 1:42 PM PST for 9 counties in Oregon; 6 counties in Washington. It took effect at Nov 4, 2024, 1:00 PM PST. It was in force for 18 hr.

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 Crook County, OR, Deschutes County, OR, Gilliam County, OR, Jefferson County, OR, Morrow County, OR, Sherman County, OR, Umatilla County, OR, Wasco County, OR, Wheeler County, OR, Benton County, WA, Columbia County, WA, Franklin County, WA, Klickitat County, WA, Walla Walla County, WA, Yakima County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 90 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 369 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 3, 1:48 AM PST	High Wind Watch	PDT	Gilliam, Sherman, Wasco	12 hr
Nov 3, 7:05 AM PST	Dense Fog Advisory	PDT	Umatilla, Union, Wallowa	4 hr
Nov 3, 1:42 PM PST	High Wind Warning	PDT	Gilliam, Sherman, Wasco	41 hr
Nov 3, 1:52 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	PDT	Umatilla, Union, Wallowa	44 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.