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High Wind Warning 9, NWS Portland, OR
NWS Portland, OR issued this high wind warning at Dec 25, 2024, 1:35 AM PST for 7 counties in Oregon; Cowlitz County, Pacific County, Wahkiakum County, Washington. It took effect at Dec 25, 2024, 6:00 PM PST. It was in force for 14 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
- Dec 25, 2024, 1:35 AM PST (09:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 25, 2024, 6:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Dec 26, 2024, 8:00 AM PST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Portland, OR
Counties Clatsop County, OR, Columbia County, OR, Lane County, OR, Lincoln County, OR, Tillamook County, OR, Washington County, OR, Yamhill County, OR, Cowlitz County, WA, Pacific County, WA, Wahkiakum County, WA
The radar
The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Quillayute State, WA (KUIL), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Portland, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at Dec 24, 9:45 PM PST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 9:45 PM PST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Portland, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 12:57 PM PST | Gale Warning | PQR | 42 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Oregon, 2024High Wind Warnings in Washington, 2024Every high wind 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.