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Wind Advisory 27, NWS Pendleton, OR

July 16, 20265 counties in Oregon; Kittitas County, Klickitat County, Yakima County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this wind advisory at Jul 16, 2026, 1:07 PM PDT for 5 counties in Oregon; Kittitas County, Klickitat County, Yakima County, Washington. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 2026, 1:07 PM PDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2026, 1:00 AM PDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR

Counties Gilliam County, OR, Morrow County, OR, Sherman County, OR, Umatilla County, OR, Wasco County, OR, Kittitas County, WA, Klickitat County, WA, Yakima County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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

Salem/Mcnary, OR (KSLE), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 231 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, Salem/Mcnary, OR at 12:00Z on 2026-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Salem/Mcnary, OR at 12:00Z on 2026-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
814 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 6:19 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTMorrow26 min
Jul 16, 12:10 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTGrant50 min
Jul 16, 1:27 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTWheeler48 min
Jul 16, 4:22 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTWallowa23 min
Jul 15, 10:14 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDTWalla Walla31 min

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.