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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Medford, OR

July 5, 2026Harney County, Klamath County, Lake County, Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this red flag warning at Jul 5, 2026, 9:17 PM PDT for Harney County, Klamath County, Lake County, Oregon. It was in force for 103 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 2026, 9:17 PM PDT (04:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2026, 11:00 PM PDT
In force
103 min
Issued by
NWS Medford, OR

Counties Harney County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 213 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:18 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 345 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2026-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 187 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2026-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
187 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-243 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 6:39 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRLake36 min
Jul 5, 6:50 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRLake25 min
Jul 5, 7:14 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRLake31 min
Jul 5, 8:14 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRKlamath31 min
Jul 5, 8:32 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRKlamath, Lake17 min
Jul 5, 8:48 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRKlamath27 min
Jul 5, 8:58 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRKlamath32 min
Jul 5, 9:15 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRKlamath30 min
Jul 5, 9:46 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRKlamath29 min
Jul 5, 10:01 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRKlamath15 min
Jul 5, 10:57 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRKlamath33 min
Jul 5, 10:59 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRKlamath31 min
Jul 6, 1:27 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRLake33 min
Jul 6, 2:33 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRKlamath27 min
Jul 6, 2:45 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRLake30 min
Jul 6, 2:54 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR36 min
Jul 6, 3:04 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRKlamath26 min
Jul 6, 3:48 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR27 min
Jul 6, 4:26 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR34 min
Jul 6, 4:29 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR31 min

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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.