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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Seattle, WA

February 8, 1996Whitman County, Washington

NWS Seattle, WA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 8, 1996, 2:12 AM PST for Whitman County, Washington. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 8, 1996, 2:12 AM PST (10:12 UTC)
Expired
Feb 8, 1996, 4:15 AM PST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Seattle, WA
Area
Whole counties

County Whitman County, WA

The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 1996-02-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-02-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 166 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
85 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 8, 12:15 AM PST, 1 hour 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
1215 AM PST THU FEB 8 1996

TIME(PST) ...CITY LOCATION... ...EVENT/REMARKS...
          ...COUNTY...

1215 AM   TACOMA NARROWS           PRECIPITATION
2/8/96    PIERCE                   1.06 INCHES LAST 12 HRS
                                   3.76 INCHES LAST 72 HRS
                                   PIERCE 20
Local storm report, Feb 8, 12:16 AM PST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
1215 AM PST THU FEB 8 1996

TIME(PST) ...CITY LOCATION... ...EVENT/REMARKS...
          ...COUNTY...

1215 AM   TACOMA NARROWS           PRECIPITATION
2/8/96    PIERCE                   1.06 INCHES LAST 12 HRS
                                   3.76 INCHES LAST 72 HRS
                                   PIERCE 20
Local storm report, Feb 8, 1:04 AM PST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
100 AM THU FEB 8 1996

TIME(PST) ...CITY LOCATION.. ...STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE      ...COUNTY LOCATION....

1245 AM   LONG BEACH          WA      HEAVY RAINFALL.
2/8/96    PACIFIC                     WEATHER OBSERVER REPORTS
                                      1.00 INCH OF RAINFALL SINCE
                                      330 PM WED.

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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.