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Wind Advisory 29, NWS Pendleton, OR
NWS Pendleton, OR issued this wind advisory at Aug 2, 2026, 1:00 PM PDT for Kittitas County, Yakima County, Washington. It took effect at Aug 2, 2026, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2026, 1:00 PM PDT (20:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 2, 2026, 2:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2026, 10:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pendleton, OR
Counties Kittitas County, WA, Yakima County, WA
The radar
The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pendleton, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2:35 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | Gilliam, Hood River, Jefferson, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla and 2 more | 20 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.