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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Spokane, WA

June 13, 2006Bonner County, Idaho; Pend Oreille County, Washington

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2006-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 163 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 2006-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 106 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 10:48 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXBonner, Boundary27 min
Jun 13, 7:31 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXBenewah, Latah44 min
Jun 13, 8:17 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXBenewah, Kootenai58 min
Jun 12, 7:23 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXChelan37 min
Jun 12, 7:42 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningOTXChelan93 min
Jun 13, 6:41 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXGarfield, Whitman49 min
Jun 13, 9:08 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens67 min
Jun 13, 10:20 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOTXPend Oreille40 min
Jun 13, 1:27 PM PDTFlash Flood WatchOTXChelan, Douglas6 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.