Alert archive / Idaho / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2000, 4:24 PM PDT for Bonner County, Boundary County, Idaho. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2000, 4:24 PM PDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2000, 5:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bonner County, ID, Boundary County, ID
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 4:30 PM PDT | Hail 1 | Coolin, ID |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2945 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS56 KOTX 242324 SVRGEG IDC017-021-250030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 424 PM PDT THU AUG 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BONNER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF IDAHO SOUTHWESTERN BOUNDARY COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF IDAHO * UNTIL 530 PM PDT * AT 423 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 21 MILES NORTH OF PRIEST RIVER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE NICKLE-SIZED HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... COOLIN AT 435 PM PDT IF ON A LAKE...GET OUT OF THE WATER AND MOVE INDOORS. REMEMBER... LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE MANY MILES AWAY FROM THE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 4857 11704 4837 11703 4853 11639 4875 11654
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.