A HIgh Wind Warning was issued for the coastal headland of zones ORZ021/022 at 2207 PST on 01/24/01. The warning was not officially cancelled, but it ran through at least 1200 PST on 01/25/01.
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The episode as NWS MFR wrote it up.
A HIgh Wind Warning was issued for the coastal headland of zones ORZ021/022 at 2207 PST on 01/24/01. The warning was not officially cancelled, but it ran through at least 1200 PST on 01/25/01. Winds exceeded warning criteria at Cape Blanco from 0900 PST to 1300 PST on 01/25, and again at 1600 PST. The highest sustained wind and gust report is listed above...no other wind reports were received.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jan 25, 8:30 AM PST, 30 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST OREGON/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
830 AM PST THU JAN 25 2001
...BUSY MORNING FOR SW OREGON...
POTENT UPPER/SFC LOW DIGGING SE OFF COAST THIS MORNING AS COLD FRONT
APPROACHES SW OR/N CAL COAST. KMAX 88D REFLECTIVITIES SHOWING PRECIP
HAS OVERSPREAD ORZ22/24 WITH IMPRESSIVE LINE OF CONVECTION/LIGHTNING
AHEAD OF COLD FRONT...BEGINNING TO COLLAPSE AT NORTH OF K4BK AS COLD
POOL/DYNAMICS MOVE SOUTH. AM CONCERNED ISOLD THUNDER MAY MAKE IT AS
FAR INLAND AS WESTERN ORZ024...SO WILL UPDATE ACCORDINGLY. SNOW
UNDERWAY AT MHS WITH GUSTY SE WINDS (G46) AT WEED RAWS. GLANCE AT
NEW 12Z ETA TAKES H7 UVV MAXIMA SE INTO CENTRAL CALIFORNIA BY
00Z...WITH HEAVIEST QPF IN CAZ080/CAZ082 WHERE WSW ARE HOISTED.
WOLF
.MFR...GALE WARNING FLORENCE OR TO POINT ST GEORGE CA.
HEAVY SURF ADVISORY ORZ021-022.
WINTER STORM WARNING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR
CAZ80-082.
SNOW ADVISORY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR CAZ081-083.
HIGH WIND WARNING THIS MORNING FOR THE HEADLANDS ORZ021-022.
WIND ADVISORY TODAY FOR CAZ081.
OTH RE 053/040 053/035 051 14+744
4BK RW 054/042 056/037 053 14+965
RBG RE 046/037 045/033 044 149754
MFR RW 047/035 048/029 046 147764
LMT CE 036/026 035/018 038 145632
LKV EE 035/024 035/015 036 143532
MHS SJ 036/028 038/027 041 14+963The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Cape Blanco wind at 0900 PST 54 mph gusting to 69 mph.
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