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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Spokane, WA

July 3, 1998Lincoln County, Washington

NWS Spokane, WA issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 1998, 3:36 PM PDT for Lincoln County, Washington. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1998, 3:36 PM PDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1998, 4:10 PM PDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Spokane, WA
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, WA

The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 12:00Z on 1998-07-03Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1998-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGEG 032236 RRA
TORGEG
WAC043-032310-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
336 PM PDT FRI JUL 3 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON

* UNTIL 410 PM PDT

* AT 335 PM PDT... FUNNEL CLOUD - ONE INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
60 MPH 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILBUR...   WAS REPORTED BY SPOTTERS
AND CONFIRMED BY RADAR... THE STORM IS MOVING NORTH 10 MPH.

* A POSSIBLE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS.

IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

TC/MS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 3:17 PM PDTTornado WarningOTXLincoln33 min
Jul 3, 4:13 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXDouglas, Grant47 min
Jul 3, 4:48 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningOTXDouglas, Grant2 hr

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.