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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Pendleton, OR

June 15, 2025Kittitas County, Yakima County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this red flag warning at Jun 15, 2025, 6:12 PM PDT for Kittitas County, Yakima County, Washington. It took effect at Jun 16, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 7 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
Jun 15, 2025, 6:12 PM PDT (01:12 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 16, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT
Expired
Jun 16, 2025, 9:00 PM PDT
In force
7 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 01:15 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

Quillayute State, WA (KUIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 313 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, Quillayute State, WA at 00:00Z on 2025-06-16Temperature 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, Quillayute State, WA at 00:00Z on 2025-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1373 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.