Alert archive / Idaho / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2006, 10:45 AM PDT for Bonner County, Idaho; Pend Oreille County, Washington. It was in force for 90 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 13, 2006, 10:45 AM PDT (17:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2006, 12:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bonner County, ID, Pend Oreille County, WA
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS56 KOTX 131745 FFWOTX IDC017-WAC051-131915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 1045 AM PDT TUE JUN 13 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PEND OREILLE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST WASHINGTON WEST CENTRAL BONNER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF IDAHO * UNTIL 1215 PM PDT * AT 1045 AM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT ARE TRAINING OVER THE WARNING AREA. * STREAMS AFFECTED BY THIS WARNING INCLUDE THE UPPER WEST BRANCH OF THE PRIEST RIVER...KLAHOWYA CREEK...GALENA CREEK...GOOSE CREEK...BLICKENSDERFER CREEK...BEAR PAW CREEK...AND OLE CREEK. 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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 4819 11733 4819 11690 4868 11693 4871 11732 $$ CR
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS76 KOTX 131840 FFSOTX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 1139 AM PDT TUE JUN 13 2006 IDC017-WAC051-131849- BONNER ID-PEND OREILLE WA- 1139 AM PDT TUE JUN 13 2006 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CENTRAL PEND OREILLE AND WEST CENTRAL BONNER COUNTIES... THE VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE DECREASED OVER CENTRAL PEND OREILLE COUNTY AS THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED NORTH. THE THREAT OF ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED. LAT...LON 4819 11733 4819 11690 4868 11693 4871 11732 $$ CR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 10:48 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Bonner, Boundary | 27 min |
| Jun 13, 7:31 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Benewah, Latah | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 8:17 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Benewah, Kootenai | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 7:23 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Chelan | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 7:42 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | OTX | Chelan | 93 min |
| Jun 13, 6:41 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Garfield, Whitman | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 9:08 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 10:20 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Pend Oreille | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 1:27 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | OTX | Chelan, Douglas | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Idaho, 2006Flash Flood Warnings in Washington, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006
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.