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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Portland, OR
NWS Portland, OR issued this high wind warning at Dec 15, 2025, 8:09 PM PST for 4 counties in Oregon; Pacific County, Washington. It took effect at Dec 16, 2025, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 14 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, 8:09 PM PST (04:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 16, 2025, 4:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2025, 6:00 AM PST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Portland, OR
Counties Clatsop County, OR, Lane County, OR, Lincoln County, OR, Tillamook County, OR, Pacific County, WA
The radar
The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 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 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Portland, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 7:54 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PQR | Clackamas, Hood River, Lane, Linn, Marion, Multnomah | 62 hr |
| Dec 15, 8:09 PM PST | Wind Advisory | PQR | Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Lane, Lincoln and 7 more | 34 hr |
| Dec 16, 3:36 PM PST | Hazardous Seas Warning | PQR | 36 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.