Alert archive / Idaho / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2005, 1:26 PM PDT for Kootenai County, Idaho; Spokane County, Washington. It was in force for 32 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
- Jul 16, 2005, 1:26 PM PDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2005, 1:58 PM PDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kootenai County, ID, Spokane County, WA
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1244 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 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 162028 SVROTX IDC055-WAC063-162100- /O.NEW.KOTX.SV.W.0013.050716T2026Z-050716T2100Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 126 PM PDT SAT JUL 16 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL SPOKANE COUNTY IN EASTERN WASHINGTON SOUTHWESTERN KOOTENAI COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF IDAHO * UNTIL 200 PM PDT * AT 121 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROCKFORD...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF POST FALLS...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WORLEY BY 150 PM PDT LAT...LON 4759 11714 4742 11721 4736 11688 4753 11679 $$ BZ
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS56 KOTX 162045 SVSOTX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 141 PM PDT SAT JUL 16 2005 IDC055-WAC063-162100- /O.CON.KOTX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050716T2100Z/ KOOTENAI ID-SPOKANE WA- 141 PM PDT SAT JUL 16 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 200 PM PDT FOR EAST CENTRAL SPOKANE AND SOUTHWESTERN KOOTENAI COUNTIES... AT 139 PM PDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WAS LOCATED BETWEEN ROCKFORD...FAIRFIELD AND WORLEY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL STRETCH FROM FAIRFIELD TO WORLEY BY 200 PM. LAT...LON 4759 11714 4742 11721 4736 11688 4753 11679 $$ BZ
000 WWUS56 KOTX 162058 SVSOTX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 155 PM PDT SAT JUL 16 2005 IDC055-WAC063-162105- /O.CAN.KOTX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050716T2100Z/ KOOTENAI ID-SPOKANE WA- 155 PM PDT SAT JUL 16 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL SPOKANE AND SOUTHWESTERN KOOTENAI COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS RAPIDLY WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER A THREAT TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. HOWEVER...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...WIND GUSTS TO 25 MPH AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED FROM FAIRFIELD TO WORLEY AND HARRISON THROUGH AT LEAST 215 PM. LAT...LON 4759 11714 4742 11721 4736 11688 4753 11679 $$ BZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 1:12 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Pend Oreille | 17 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.