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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Spokane, WA

August 24, 2000Bonner County, Boundary County, Idaho

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 24, 4:30 PM PDTHail 1Coolin, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2000-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 154 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2000-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 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
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

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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

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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.