Alert archive / Idaho / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 19, 1995, 9:23 PM PST for Kootenai County, Shoshone County, Idaho. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 1995, 9:23 PM PST (05:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 1995, 12:30 AM PST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kootenai County, ID, Shoshone County, ID
The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 22 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 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 KBOI 200523 FFWGEG IDC055-079-200830- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA ISSUED BY BOISE ID 923 PM PST SUN FEB 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM PST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH IDAHO ...KOOTENAI COUNTY...SHOSHONE COUNTY FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT ON THE COEUR D ALENE RIVER AT ENAVILLE AND AT CATALDO...AND ALSO ON THE ST. JOE RIVER AT CALDER. HEAVY RAINS COMBINED WITH RAPID SNOWMELT WILL BRING THESE RIVERS TO FLOOD STAGE BY MIDNIGHT AND REMAIN ABOVE FLOOD STAGE THROUGH THE NIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 19, 8:25 PM PST, 58 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE, WA 820 PM PST SUN FEB 19 1995 0420 SPOTTER # SHOSHONE-11H AT PINEHURST REPORTS THAT IT IS RAINING HARD AND HAS BEEN FOR SEVERAL HOURS. END/SAVOY
Local storm report, Feb 19, 8:29 PM PST, 54 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE, WA 929 PM PDT SUN FEB 19 1995 0420 SPOTTER # SHOSHONE-11H AT PINEHURST REPORTS THAT IT IS RAINING HARD AND HAS BEEN FOR SEVERAL HOURS. 0427 SPOTTER # SHOSHONE-9 COUNTY FIRE STATION SAID RAINING HARD FOR SEVERAL HOURS. END/SAVOY
Local storm report, Feb 19, 8:30 PM PST, 53 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE, WA 929 PM PDT SUN FEB 19 1995 0420 SPOTTER # SHOSHONE-11H AT PINEHURST REPORTS THAT IT IS RAINING HARD AND HAS BEEN FOR SEVERAL HOURS. 0427 SPOTTER # SHOSHTONE-9 COUNTY FIRE STATION SAID RAINING HARD FOR SEVERAL HOURS. END/SAVOY
Nearby
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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.