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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Spokane, WA

July 6, 1995Clearwater County, Latah County, Nez Perce County, Idaho

NWS Spokane, WA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 6:00 PM PDT for Clearwater County, Latah County, Nez Perce County, Idaho. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1995, 6:00 PM PDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1995, 7:00 PM PDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Spokane, WA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clearwater County, ID, Latah County, ID, Nez Perce County, ID

The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 1995-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 176 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 1995-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 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
176 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2283 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KLWS 070100 RRA
SVRLWS
IDC035-049-057-061-069-070200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEWISTON ID
ISSUED BY BOISE ID
600 PM PDT THU JUL 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO
 
   ...CLEARWATER COUNTY...IDAHO COUNTY...
 
AT 555 PM PDT WEATHER RADAR AT MISSOULA INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRESENT IN IDAHO COUNTY AND NOW CLEARWATER
COUNTY IN NORTHERN IDAHO.  MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30
MPH.
 
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED OUT OF NEZ PERCE...LATAH
AND LEWIS COUNTIES.  THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS ENDED FOR
NEZ PERCE...LATAH..AND LEWIS COUNTIES. HOWEVER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
WERE STILL LOCATED IN THE NEARBY COUNTIES.  PERSONS IN ALL NORTHERN
IDAHO COUNTIES SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ALERT THIS EVENING.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 


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The office that day

Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 5:05 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXBenewah55 min
Jul 6, 5:40 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXKootenai, Shoshone65 min
Jul 6, 6:00 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXIdaho, Lewis60 min

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.