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Wind Advisory 2, NWS Portland, OR
NWS Portland, OR issued this wind advisory at Feb 23, 2025, 2:26 AM PST for 13 counties in Oregon; 5 counties in Washington. It took effect at Feb 24, 2025, 12:00 PM PST. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2025, 2:26 AM PST (10:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2025, 12:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2025, 4:00 AM PST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Portland, OR
Counties Benton County, OR, Clackamas County, OR, Clatsop County, OR, Columbia County, OR, Lane County, OR, Lincoln County, OR, Linn County, OR, Marion County, OR, Multnomah County, OR, Polk County, OR, Tillamook County, OR, Washington County, OR, Yamhill County, OR, Clark County, WA, Cowlitz County, WA, Pacific County, WA, Skamania County, WA, Wahkiakum County, WA
The radar
The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:26 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 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 337 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2029 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Portland, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Feb 22, 10:01 PM PST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 10:01 PM PST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Portland, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 6:49 PM PST | High Wind Watch | PQR | Benton, Clatsop, Columbia, Lane, Lincoln, Polk and 3 more | 19 hr |
| Feb 22, 7:50 PM PST | Storm Warning | PQR | 56 hr | |
| Feb 22, 7:58 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | PQR | Clatsop, Lane, Lincoln, Tillamook | 32 hr |
| Feb 23, 8:32 AM PST | Gale Warning | PQR | 10 hr | |
| Feb 23, 8:32 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory | PQR | 19 hr | |
| Feb 23, 1:52 PM PST | High Wind Warning | PQR | Benton, Clatsop, Columbia, Lane, Lincoln, Polk and 3 more | 38 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:07 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PQR | Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania | 50 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.