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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Spokane, WA

May 9, 2000Lincoln County, Spokane County, Washington

NWS Spokane, WA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 3:41 PM PDT for Lincoln County, Spokane County, Washington. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 2000, 3:41 PM PDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2000, 4:30 PM PDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Spokane, WA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Lincoln County, WA, Spokane County, WA

The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 109 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 2000-05-09Temperature 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 2000-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1183 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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 
WUUS56 KOTX 092242
SVRGEG
WAC043-063-092330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
341 PM PDT TUE MAY 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN SPOKANE COUNTY IN EASTERN WASHINGTON
  EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON

* UNTIL 430 PM PDT

* AT 338 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DAVENPORT...OR 22 MILES
  WEST OF CHENEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   REARDAN AT 355 PM PDT
   DEEP CREEK AT 405 PM PDT

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.

LAT...LON 4756 11820 4743 11801 4786 11733 4783 11754

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.