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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Spokane, WA

June 28, 2004Shoshone County, Idaho

NWS Spokane, WA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2004, 8:08 PM PDT for Shoshone County, Idaho. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 28, 2004, 8:08 PM PDT (03:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2004, 11:00 PM PDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Spokane, WA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Shoshone County, ID

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 24 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 00:00Z on 2004-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 191 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2004-06-29The 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
191 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 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 
WGUS56 KOTX 290319
FFWOTX
IDC079-290600-

BULLETIN - IMMEADIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
808 PM PDT MON JUN 28 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL SHOSHONE COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF IDAHO

* UNTIL 1100 PM PDT

* AT 801 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL SHOSHONE
  COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF KELLOGG...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

FLOOD WATERS ARE MOVING DOWN THE HEADWATERS OF THE COEUR DALENE 
RIVER AND ASSOCIATED TRIBUTARIES FROM SUBURBAN PEAK TO PRITCHARD.  

FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE
YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME
KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR
CREEKS.

LAT...LON 4773 11619 4760 11603 4771 11595 4783 11603

$$

LERICOS

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.