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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Portland, OR

September 25, 20265 counties in Oregon; Cowlitz County, Pacific County, Wahkiakum County, Washington

NWS Portland, OR issued this high wind warning at Sep 25, 2026, 7:44 AM PDT for 5 counties in Oregon; Cowlitz County, Pacific County, Wahkiakum County, Washington. It was in force for 4 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
Sep 25, 2026, 7:44 AM PDT (14:44 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 PM PDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Portland, OR

Counties Clatsop County, OR, Columbia County, OR, Tillamook County, OR, Washington County, OR, Yamhill County, OR, Cowlitz County, WA, Pacific County, WA, Wahkiakum County, WA

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:47 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

Quillayute State, WA (KUIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 243 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, Quillayute State, WA at 12:00Z on 2026-09-25Temperature 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, Quillayute State, WA at 12:00Z on 2026-09-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 1:30 PM PDTSmall Craft AdvisoryPQR10 hr
Sep 25, 1:30 PM PDTSmall Craft AdvisoryPQR58 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Oregon, 2026High Wind Warnings in Washington, 2026Every high wind 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.