Alert archive / Washington / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Seattle, WA
NWS Seattle, WA issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1992, 3:40 PM PDT for Douglas County, Okanogan County, Washington. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1992, 3:40 PM PDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1992, 4:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Seattle, WA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Douglas County, WA, Okanogan County, WA
The nearest sounding before it
Spokane Intl Airport, WA (KGEG), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSEA 042243 TORSEA WAC017-047-042315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA 340 PM PDT SAT JUL 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SEATTLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL WASHINGTON ...DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH WASHINGTON ...SOUTHERN OKANOGAN COUNTY AN OBSERVER AT WENATCHEE HAS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 8 MILES NORTH OF PANGBORN FIELD AT 3:38 PM PDT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTH AND IS APPROACHING THE TOWNS OF WATERVILLE...DOUGLAS...AND ENTIAT. RESIDENTS IN THESE COMMUNITIES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION AS THIS LIFE THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 11:06 AM PDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WASHINGTON STATE WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA 11 AM PDT SAT JUL 4 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS EASTERN WASHINGTON... AN UPPER LEVEL LOW JUST OFF THE WASHINGTON COAST IS BRINGING A SOUTHERLY FETCH OF MOIST UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE STATE. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BEGAN EARLIER IN OREGON AND HAVE MOVED INTO SOUTHERN WASHINGTON. RAINSHOWERS TURNED TO THUNDERSHOWERS AS THE STORMS MOVED FROM OREGON INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. FROM 530 AM TO 730 AM WALLA WALLA REPORTED A THUNDERSHOWER. OTHER AREAS OF THE EAST CONTINUE TO REPORT INCREASING CLOUD COVER. IN THE WEST AREAS OF RAIN AND PATCHY FOG HAD DEVELOPED BY 1030 AM OVER PUGET SOUND...WITH LOCAL REPORTS OF OVER ONE QUARTER INCH OF RAIN RECORDED IN NORTH SEATTLE. NORTH OF EVERETT AND ALSO THE COAST REMAIN UNDER MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES. UNSETTLED WET WEATHER WILL CONTINUE TODAY IN THE WEST WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL. TEMPERATURES STATEWIDE ARE IN THE LOW TO MID 60S WITH A FEW READINGS IN COLUMBIA BASIN REACHING THE MID TO UPPER 70S. THE AIR IN EASTERN WASHINGTON IS EXPECTED TO BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON ALLOWING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP... ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTHEAST SECTION. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG WINDS THAT REDUCE VISIBLITY IN BLOWING DUST. PEOPLE PLANNING TRAVEL OR OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THIS FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND SHOULD KEEP INFORMED OF THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND FORECASTS. MH/WDB
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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.