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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2026, 3:05 PM PDT for Lake County, Oregon. It was in force for 25 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
- May 28, 2026, 3:05 PM PDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2026, 3:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Lake County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 207 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 12:49 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 316 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
- 1077 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 28, 1:12 PM PDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 1:12 PM PDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 5:09 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFR | Klamath | 27 min |
| May 27, 5:13 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFR | Klamath | 32 min |
| May 27, 5:40 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFR | Jackson, Klamath | 18 min |
| May 28, 1:39 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | MFR | 5 days | |
| May 28, 2:09 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFR | Lake | 51 min |
| May 27, 5:35 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFR | Siskiyou | 40 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.