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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Portland, OR

December 15, 2025Clatsop County, Tillamook County, Oregon; Pacific County, Washington

NWS Portland, OR issued this high wind warning at Dec 15, 2025, 6:31 AM PST for Clatsop County, Tillamook County, Oregon; Pacific County, Washington. It was in force for 6 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
Dec 15, 2025, 6:31 AM PST (14:31 UTC)
Expired
Dec 15, 2025, 1:00 PM PST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Portland, OR

Counties Clatsop County, OR, Tillamook County, OR, Pacific County, WA

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:31 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

Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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, Salem/Mcnary, OR at 12:00Z on 2025-12-15Temperature 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, Salem/Mcnary, OR at 12:00Z on 2025-12-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 600 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
600 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
726 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 14, 10:12 PM PSTHazardous Seas WarningPQR30 hr
Dec 15, 2:50 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryPQR37 hr
Dec 15, 11:11 AM PSTFlood WatchPQRBenton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Hood River, Lane and 8 more5 days
Dec 15, 3:39 PM PSTGale WarningPQR42 hr
Dec 15, 9:59 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningPQRWahkiakum12 hr
Dec 15, 10:21 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningPQRCowlitz, Pacific, Wahkiakum5 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Oregon, 2025High Wind Warnings in Washington, 2025Every high wind warning in 2025

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.