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High Wind Watch 8, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this high wind watch at Dec 16, 2025, 12:53 PM PST for 5 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, California. It took effect at Dec 18, 2025, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 16, 2025, 12:53 PM PST (20:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 18, 2025, 4:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2025, 3:12 PM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Modoc County, CA, Coos County, OR, Curry County, OR, Douglas County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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
Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 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 watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Dec 15, 2:19 PM PST, 22 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 15, 2:19 PM PST, 22 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 1:06 PM PST | Gale Watch | MFR | 25 hr | |
| Dec 16, 1:06 PM PST | Storm Watch | MFR | 25 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.