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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Pendleton, OR

May 30, 2025Kittitas County, Yakima County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this high wind warning at May 30, 2025, 11:32 AM PDT for Kittitas County, Yakima County, Washington. It took effect at May 31, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 10 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: May 30, 2025, 11:32 AM PDT (18:32 UTC)
In effect from: May 31, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT
Expired: Jun 1, 2025, 12:00 AM PDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Pendleton, OR

Counties Kittitas County, WA, Yakima County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 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

Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 273 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1034 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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 high wind warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at May 30, 10:08 AM PDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 10:08 AM PDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 11:45 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PDT	Gilliam, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Wasco, Wheeler	35 hr

Nearby

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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.