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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Medford, OR

July 3, 2025Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2025, 7:17 PM PDT for Siskiyou County, California. It was in force for 28 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
Jul 3, 2025, 7:17 PM PDT (02:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2025, 7:45 PM PDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Medford, OR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Siskiyou County, CA

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 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

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 430 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, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 2025-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 360 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, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 2025-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 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
360 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3112 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 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 Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 3, 4:28 PM PDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 4:28 PM PDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 3:58 PM PDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 5:15 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRJackson, Klamath30 min
Jul 3, 5:43 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRJackson, Klamath32 min
Jul 3, 5:44 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRKlamath31 min
Jul 3, 5:56 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRKlamath34 min
Jul 3, 6:02 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR28 min
Jul 3, 6:08 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRJackson37 min
Jul 3, 6:15 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRJackson, Klamath30 min
Jul 3, 6:18 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRKlamath27 min
Jul 3, 6:37 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRLake23 min
Jul 3, 6:43 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRJackson32 min
Jul 3, 6:46 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRLake29 min
Jul 3, 6:54 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRKlamath36 min
Jul 3, 7:24 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRKlamath, Lake36 min
Jul 3, 8:02 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRKlamath43 min
Jul 3, 8:38 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR37 min
Jul 4, 3:00 AM PDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMFR4 days
Jul 4, 12:45 PM PDTHazardous Seas WatchMFR15 hr
Jul 4, 1:12 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR33 min
Jul 4, 2:44 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR31 min
Jul 4, 3:04 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR26 min
Jul 4, 4:27 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRLake33 min
Jul 3, 5:12 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRModoc33 min
Jul 3, 5:29 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRModoc31 min
Jul 3, 5:40 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRSiskiyou35 min
Jul 3, 8:40 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRSiskiyou35 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.