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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Medford, OR

August 27, 2025Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2025, 4:55 PM PDT for Siskiyou County, California. It was in force for 50 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
Aug 27, 2025, 4:55 PM PDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 2025, 5:45 PM PDT
In force
50 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 23:56 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 12:00Z, 11.9 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 12:00Z on 2025-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 12 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 12:00Z on 2025-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-179 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 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 Aug 27, 4:22 PM PDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 4:22 PM PDT, 33 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 27, 2:06 PM PDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 27, 3:48 PM PDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 27, 4:16 PM PDT, 39 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 27, 4:19 PM PDT, 36 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 5:07 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR38 min
Aug 26, 5:07 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRJosephine38 min
Aug 26, 5:35 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRJosephine25 min
Aug 26, 5:54 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRJackson36 min
Aug 26, 6:14 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRJosephine31 min
Aug 26, 6:31 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRJackson, Josephine32 min
Aug 26, 7:01 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR29 min
Aug 26, 7:20 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRJosephine25 min
Aug 26, 7:50 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRJackson40 min
Aug 26, 8:05 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRJackson40 min
Aug 27, 3:48 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR27 min
Aug 27, 4:19 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR41 min
Aug 26, 5:30 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRSiskiyou30 min
Aug 26, 6:04 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRSiskiyou26 min
Aug 26, 6:12 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRSiskiyou33 min
Aug 26, 6:29 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRSiskiyou31 min
Aug 26, 6:47 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRSiskiyou28 min
Aug 26, 7:47 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRModoc28 min
Aug 27, 2:06 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRModoc24 min
Aug 27, 4:16 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRSiskiyou44 min
Aug 27, 4:31 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRSiskiyou44 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.