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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Medford, OR
NWS Medford, OR issued this winter storm warning at Mar 31, 2026, 10:42 AM PDT for 4 counties in Oregon. It took effect at Apr 1, 2026, 5:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 30 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
- Mar 31, 2026, 10:42 AM PDT (17:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 1, 2026, 5:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2026, 10:34 AM PDT
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Medford, OR
Counties Douglas County, OR, Jackson County, OR, Josephine County, OR, Klamath County, OR
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 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
Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 1500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 31, 5:06 AM PDT, 5 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 5:06 AM PDT, 5 hours 36 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, 12:22 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | MFR | Lake | 47 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:16 PM PDT | Gale Warning | MFR | 26 hr | |
| Mar 31, 12:16 PM PDT | Hazardous Seas Warning | MFR | 47 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Oregon, 2026Every winter storm warning in 2026
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.