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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Pendleton, OR

January 15, 2024Union County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this wind advisory at Jan 15, 2024, 2:46 PM PST for Union County, Oregon. It took effect at Jan 16, 2024, 7:00 AM PST. It was in force for 32 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 15, 2024, 2:46 PM PST (22:46 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 16, 2024, 7:00 AM PST
Expired
Jan 17, 2024, 3:00 PM PST
In force
32 hr
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR

County Union County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 293 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 2024-01-15Temperature 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 2024-01-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -95 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 15, 2:42 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDTGilliam, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco4 days
Jan 15, 2:42 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDTCrook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Jefferson, Morrow and 4 more55 hr

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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.