California, 2014Hail in California, July 22, 2014
July 22, 2014 · NWS MFR · 1 event in 1 county or zone
Many thunderstorms developed this day, and some of them became severe.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Many thunderstorms developed this day, and some of them became severe.
What forecasters said that day
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 Jul 22, 1:45 PM PST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 1:45 PM PST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
245 PM PDT TUE JUL 22 2014
.DISCUSSION...AN UNUSUALLY DEEP UPPER TROUGH (560 DM 500 MB
HEIGHTS) CONTINUES TO SPIN DOWN THE BC COAST THIS AFTERNOON AND
WILL MAKE THE TURN AND HEAD INLAND TOMORROW. THE AIRMASS AHEAD OF
THE SYSTEM OVER US REMAINS WARM AND UNSTABLE, ESPECIALLY INLAND
FROM THE COAST. A VIGOROUS SHORTWAVE IS MOVING NORTHWARD THROUGH
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RIGHT NOW AND WILL MOVE ACROSS OUR OREGON
ZONES EARLY THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING
NORTH WITH THE SHORT WAVE AND, IN ADDITION, CONVECTION IS STARTING
TO INITIATE LOCALLY IN THE EXPECTED SPOTS FROM WESTERN SISKIYOU
INTO KLAMATH AND LAKE COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO
FILL IN OVER THESE AREAS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THE GREATEST
INSTABILITY IS LOCATED FROM AROUND MEDFORD EASTWARD, SO THIS IS
WHERE STORMS WILL BE MOST NUMEROUS. IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THE COAST
OR UMPQUA WILL SEE ANY LIGHTNING THROUGH THIS EVENING.
IN ADDITION, THE UPPER JET WILL INCREASE, AND BY THIS EVENING
NORTHERN KLAMATH AND LAKE COUNTIES WILL BE IN THE LEFT EXIT
REGION OF A 100 KT PLUS JET. AT THIS POINT, WE STAND THE GREATEST
CHANCE OF SEEING SOME SEVERE STORMS OVER LAKE AND KLAMATH COUNTY,
ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM CAN'T BE RULED OUT ELSEWHERE
ACROSS CALIFORNIA AND THE EAST SIDE. CURRENTLY, STORMS ARE MOVING
NORTH AT AROUND 30 KNOTS, SO WHILE THEY WILL BE CAPABLE OF BRIEF
HEAVY RAIN, THE MAIN SEVERE THREATS WILL BE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS.
BY LATE EVENING, THE SEVERE THREAT SHOULD BE OVER, BUT ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE OVER THE EAST SIDE.
AS MENTIONED, THE UPPER TROUGH MOVES INLAND TOMORROW. THE BULK OF
THE UPPER LOW AND COLD POOL WILL BE NORTH OF US, BUT THE SYSTEM
WILL DRIVE A COLD FRONT ACROSS OUR AREA. INSTABILITY ISN'T GREAT
TOMORROW, BUT THE SIMPLE FACT THAT IT'S LATE JULY AND A FRONT IS
COMING THROUGH MEANS WE'LL HAVE SOME CHANCE FOR THUNDER TOMORROW
JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE. THIS FRONT WILL ALSO MEAN GUSTY WINDS EAST
OF THE CASCADES, ESPECIALLY IN THE AFTERNOON.
THE SYSTEM MOVES AWAY THURSDAY AND WE BEGIN TO RETURN TO MORE
NORMAL WEATHER FOR JULY AROUND HERE WHICH MEANS A RETURN OF THE
THERMAL TROUGH AND DRY WEATHER. THIS WILL LAST INTO THE WEEKEND
AND HEAT WILL GRADUALLY BUILD AS AN UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST. HIGHS WILL BE BACK UP AROUND 100 IN MEDFORD BY
THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE MODELS SHOW SOME
INCREASE IN MONSOONAL MOISTURE EARLY NEXT WEEK AND ALSO A
POSSIBILITY OF A SHORT WAVE MOVING UP THROUGH THE SOUTHERLY FLOW.
THIS MAY MEAN SOME THUNDERSTORMS NEXT WEEK, BUT IT IS A LITTLE FAR
OUT TO GET SPECIFIC. -WRIGHT
&&
.AVIATION...BASED ON THE 22/18Z TAFS...AREAS OF MVFR CEILINGS AT THE
COAST WILL FILL IN TONIGHT AND LOWER TO IFR. THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING, SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WITH
THE MOST FREQUENT ACTIVITY FROM WESTERN SISKIYOU COUNTY
NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE SISKIYOU AND CASCADE MOUNTAINS INTO
NORTHERN PORTIONS OF KLAMATH AND LAKE COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
MAY PRODUCE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WITH MVFR CIGS/VSBYS, GUSTY
WINDS, AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. LATE TONIGHT LOW CLOUDS AND SHOWERS
WILL ACCOMPANY A COLD FRONT WITH MVFR CEILINGS SPREADING FROM THE
COAST TO THE UMPQUA BASIN.
&&
.MARINE...UPDATED 230 AM PDT 21 JULY 2014...WEAK LOW PRESSURE WILL
MOVE TOWARDS THE WATERS TODAY...THEN A FRONT WILL MOVE ONSHORE
WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL RESULT IN MAINLY LIGHT WINDS AND SEAS THROUGH
WEDNESDAY. A THERMAL TROUGH PATTERN WILL REDEVELOP THURSDAY AND
REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND RESULTING IN STRONG NORTH
WINDS AND STEEP TO VERY STEEP WIND DRIVEN SEAS INTO THE WEEKEND.
&&
.MFR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OR...RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR ORZ625.
RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR
ORZ617-621>623.
RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR ORZ624.
CA...RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR CAZ285.
RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR CAZ280-281.
RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR CAZ284.
PACIFIC COASTAL WATERS...NONE.In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 1:59 PM PST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
259 PM PDT TUE JUL 22 2014
CAZ080-081-ORZ028-222245-
CENTRAL SISKIYOU COUNTY CA-SISKIYOU MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHERN OREGON
CASCADES OR-WESTERN SISKIYOU COUNTY CA-
259 PM PDT TUE JUL 22 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN JACKSON AND NORTHERN
SISKIYOU COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM PDT...
AT 255 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF KLAMATH RIVER...OR 12 MILES WEST
OF YREKA...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.
HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.
AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...KLAMATH RIVER...GROUSE GAP
SNOW PARK AND MOUNT ASHLAND SNOW PARK. THE STORM WILL CROSS OVER
HIGHWAY 96.
LAT...LON 4214 12290 4214 12258 4169 12277 4172 12300
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 192DEG 23KT 4181 12285
MAS
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:08 PM PST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
308 PM PDT TUE JUL 22 2014
ORZ030-222245-
NORTHERN AND EASTERN KLAMATH COUNTY AND WESTERN LAKE COUNTY OR-
308 PM PDT TUE JUL 22 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EXTREME NORTHWESTERN LAKE AND
NORTHERN KLAMATH COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM PDT...
AT 305 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF JACKSON CREEK FOREST CAMP...
OR 32 MILES EAST OF CRATER LAKE...MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME
NORTHWESTERN LAKE AND NORTHERN KLAMATH COUNTIES...INCLUDING PORTIONS
OF HIGHWAY 31.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.
LAT...LON 4356 12159 4351 12125 4297 12146 4300 12170
TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 192DEG 27KT 4309 12155
SK
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:46 PM PST, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
346 PM PDT TUE JUL 22 2014
ORZ026-028-222330-
JACKSON COUNTY OR-SISKIYOU MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHERN OREGON CASCADES OR-
346 PM PDT TUE JUL 22 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY UNTIL 430
PM PDT...
AT 344 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ASHLAND...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.
PENNY SIZED HAIL MAY OCCUR WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...ASHLAND...MEDFORD...TALENT...
ROXY ANN PEAK...AGATE RESERVOIR...WHITE CITY...EAGLE POINT...BUTTE
FALLS AND PHOENIX.
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 4261 12279 4256 12247 4207 12266 4211 12290
TIME...MOT...LOC 2245Z 193DEG 24KT 4218 12275
SVEN
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:48 PM PST, 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
348 PM PDT TUE JUL 22 2014
ORZ030-222315-
NORTHERN AND EASTERN KLAMATH COUNTY AND WESTERN LAKE COUNTY OR-
348 PM PDT TUE JUL 22 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EXTREME NORTHWESTERN LAKE AND
NORTHERN KLAMATH COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM PDT...
AT 344 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES EAST OF CRESCENT...OR 51 MILES NORTHEAST
OF CRATER LAKE...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME
NORTHWESTERN LAKE AND NORTHERN KLAMATH COUNTIES AND PORTIONS OF
HIGHWAY 31.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.
LAT...LON 4361 12125 4336 12134 4340 12158 4362 12153
4362 12126
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 192DEG 42KT 4347 12144
SKSpecial weather statement, Jul 22, 3:09 PM PST, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
409 PM PDT TUE JUL 22 2014
CAZ085-ORZ030-031-230000-
CENTRAL AND EASTERN LAKE COUNTY OR-MODOC COUNTY CA-NORTHERN AND
EASTERN KLAMATH COUNTY AND WESTERN LAKE COUNTY OR-
409 PM PDT TUE JUL 22 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN LAKE AND NORTHERN MODOC
COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM PDT...
AT 406 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTH OF DOG LAKE CAMPGROUND...OR 28
MILES NORTH OF ALTURAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...LAKEVIEW...DREWS CREEK
RECREATION SITE AND HIGHWAY 140 AT WARNER MOUNTAIN SUMMIT.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.
LAT...LON 4241 12051 4229 12021 4177 12063 4185 12085
TIME...MOT...LOC 2308Z 207DEG 32KT 4189 12068
SK
Local storm report, Jul 22, 3:21 PM PST, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
421 PM PDT TUE JUL 22 2014
...TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
...DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0420 PM HEAVY RAIN 3 ESE TALENT 42.23N 122.73W
07/22/2014 E0.46 INCH JACKSON OR TRAINED SPOTTER
HEAVY RAIN. OCCURRED FROM 3:50PM - 4:10 PM.
NO HAIL. SAW ROUGHLY 25 STRIKES. MAX WIND
GUSTS ESTIMATED AT 35MPH HEAVY RAIN DURATION
20 MINUTES. OBSERVER LOCATION 3 MI E. OF
ASHLAND.
&&
NWS MEDFORD OR
IRIS SYSTEMHail, Siskiyou
- When
- July 22, 3:30 PM PST to 3:45 PM PST
- Where
- Siskiyou County, 1.73 mi NW of Forks of Salmon to 5.01 mi NW of Somes Bar
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 41.270, -123.340
A spotter 10SE Somes Bar reported one inch hail at 22/1530 PST. A member of the public reported quarter size (one inch) hail on Salmon River road between Forks of Salmon and Somes Bar California. The hail occurred between 22/1530 and 22/1545 PST and lasted for five minutes. Mudslides were also reported on Salmon River road.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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