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Winter Storm Warning 7, NWS Medford, OR

February 18, 20254 counties in Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this winter storm warning at Feb 18, 2025, 12:07 PM PST for 4 counties in Oregon. It took effect at Feb 19, 2025, 7:00 AM PST. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 18, 2025, 12:07 PM PST (20:07 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 19, 2025, 7:00 AM PST
Expired
Feb 19, 2025, 4:00 PM PST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Medford, OR

Counties Douglas County, OR, Jackson County, OR, Josephine County, OR, Klamath County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 36 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2025-02-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2025-02-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Feb 18, 10:10 AM PST, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 10:10 AM PST, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 18, 3:13 AM PSTGale WarningMFR31 hr
Feb 18, 8:34 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryMFR13 hr
Feb 18, 9:58 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningMFRCoos, Curry, Douglas21 hr
Feb 18, 9:58 AM PSTWind AdvisoryMFRJackson21 hr
Feb 18, 2:34 PM PSTHazardous Seas WarningMFR24 hr
Feb 18, 2:44 PM PSTCoastal Flood AdvisoryMFRCoos, Curry, Douglas19 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.