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Wind Advisory 24, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this wind advisory at Dec 17, 2025, 3:12 PM PST for 6 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Dec 18, 2025, 7:00 AM PST. It was in force for 33 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 17, 2025, 3:12 PM PST (23:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 18, 2025, 7:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2025, 4:00 PM PST
- In force
- 33 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Coos County, OR, Curry County, OR, Douglas County, OR, Josephine County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 488 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
- 1401 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Dec 17, 3:11 PM PST, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 17, 3:11 PM PST, 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 1:43 PM PST | Gale Warning | MFR | 35 hr | |
| Dec 17, 1:43 PM PST | Storm Warning | MFR | 29 hr | |
| Dec 17, 1:46 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas | 32 hr |
| Dec 17, 3:12 PM PST | High Wind Warning | MFR | Coos, Curry, Douglas, Klamath, Lake | 49 hr |
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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.