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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2025, 4:06 PM PDT for Modoc County, California. It was in force for 37 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 29, 2025, 4:06 PM PDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2025, 4:43 PM PDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Modoc County, CA
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 414 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1365 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 29, 3:28 PM PDT, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 3:28 PM PDT, 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 5:01 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MFR | Lake | 44 min |
| Jul 28, 9:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFR | Klamath | 30 min |
| Jul 28, 9:47 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MFR | Klamath | 28 min |
| Jul 29, 12:46 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | MFR | Curry, Douglas, Harney, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and 2 more | 34 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:49 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MFR | 56 min | |
| Jul 28, 5:49 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MFR | Modoc | 26 min |
| Jul 28, 6:45 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MFR | Modoc | 30 min |
| Jul 28, 7:35 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MFR | Modoc | 25 min |
| Jul 29, 12:46 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | MFR | Modoc, Siskiyou | 24 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:52 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MFR | Modoc | 53 min |
| Jul 29, 4:58 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MFR | Modoc | 32 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.