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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this red flag warning at Jun 18, 2026, 12:51 PM PDT for 5 counties in Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Jun 19, 2026, 8:00 AM PDT. 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
- Jun 18, 2026, 12:51 PM PDT (19:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 19, 2026, 8:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2026, 9:33 PM PDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Harney County, OR, Jackson County, OR, Josephine County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 416 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
- 3108 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 1:45 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | MFR | 26 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.