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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this wind advisory at Mar 31, 2026, 12:22 AM PDT for Lake County, Oregon; Modoc County, Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Apr 1, 2026, 7:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2026, 12:22 AM PDT (07:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 1, 2026, 7:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2026, 11:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Modoc County, CA, Siskiyou County, CA, Lake County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:25 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 370 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
- 3128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Mar 30, 10:51 PM PDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 10:51 PM PDT, 1 hour 31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 11:39 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | MFR | Klamath, Lake | 59 hr |
| Mar 31, 10:42 AM PDT | Winter Storm Warning | MFR | Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath | 48 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:16 PM PDT | Gale Warning | MFR | 26 hr | |
| Mar 31, 12:16 PM PDT | Hazardous Seas Warning | MFR | 47 hr |
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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.