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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Spokane, WA

June 10, 2003Spokane County, Washington; Kootenai County, Idaho

NWS Spokane, WA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2003, 2:26 PM PDT for Spokane County, Washington; Kootenai County, Idaho. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 2003, 2:26 PM PDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2003, 3:00 PM PDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Spokane, WA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kootenai County, ID, Spokane County, WA

The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 60 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 2003-06-10Temperature 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 2003-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
1304 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 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.

625 
WUUS56 KOTX 102126
SVROTX
IDC055-WAC063-102200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
225 PM PDT TUE JUN 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL SPOKANE COUNTY IN EASTERN WASHINGTON
  NORTHWESTERN KOOTENAI COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF IDAHO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...RATHDRUM...HAYDEN

* UNTIL 300 PM PDT

* AT 221 PM PDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER COLBERT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF SPOKANE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   TRENTWOOD AT 230 PM PDT
   NEWMAN LAKE AT 240 PM PDT
   HAUSER AT 250 PM PDT
   RATHDRUM...HAYDEN...SPIRIT LAKE AT 300 PM PDT

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE QUARTER SIZED HAIL...AND
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN.

LAT...LON 4782 11747 4765 11739 4775 11677 4796 11686

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 2:37 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXPend Oreille53 min
Jun 10, 4:43 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXSpokane32 min
Jun 10, 3:16 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXBonner29 min
Jun 10, 4:04 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXBonner26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Washington, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.