Alert archive / Idaho / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this red flag warning at Aug 4, 2006, 8:24 AM PDT for 5 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Aug 4, 2006, 1:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 2006, 8:24 AM PDT (15:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 4, 2006, 1:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2006, 8:31 PM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
Counties Benewah County, ID, Bonner County, ID, Boundary County, ID, Kootenai County, ID, Shoshone County, ID
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:30 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS86 KOTX 041524 RFWOTX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 824 AM PDT FRI AUG 4 2006 WAZ684-685-687-050400- /O.NEW.KOTX.FW.W.0002.060804T2000Z-060805T0400Z/ EAST WASHINGTON OKANOGAN/METHOW VALLEYS (ZONE 684)- EAST WASHINGTON NORTH CASCADES (ZONE 685)- EAST WASHINGTON OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS (ZONE 687)- 824 AM PDT FRI AUG 4 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. A DRY SURFACE FRONT WILL PASS ACROSS NORTHERN WASHINGTON TODAY. WINDS WILL INCREASE FROM THE NORTH 15 TO 20 MPH THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES THIS AFTERNOON WILL PLUMMET TO THE TEENS TO LOWER 20S. HUMIDITIES WILL INCREASE LATER THIS EVENING...HOWEVER WINDS WILL CONTINUE ESPECIALLY ALONG THE RIDGE TOPS THROUGH THE NIGHT. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ IDZ101-WAZ686-050400- /O.NEW.KOTX.FW.W.0002.060804T2000Z-060805T0400Z/ NORTHERN AND CENTRAL IDAHO PANHANDLE (ZONE 101)- EAST WASHINGTON NORTHEAST (ZONE 686)- 824 AM PDT FRI AUG 4 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. A DRY SURFACE FRONT WILL PASS ACROSS NORTHERN WASHINGTON TODAY. WINDS WILL INCREASE FROM THE WEST 15 TO 20 MPH THIS AFTERNOON AND SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST BY THIS EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES THIS AFTERNOON WILL PLUMMET TO THE TEENS TO LOWER 20S. HUMIDITIES WILL INCREASE LATER THIS EVENING...HOWEVER WINDS WILL CONTINUE ESPECIALLY ALONG THE RIDGE TOPS THROUGH THE NIGHT. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS86 KOTX 050331 RFWOTX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 831 PM PDT FRI AUG 4 2006 IDZ101-WAZ684>687-050445- /O.CAN.KOTX.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060805T0400Z/ NORTHERN AND CENTRAL IDAHO PANHANDLE (ZONE 101)- EAST WASHINGTON OKANOGAN/METHOW VALLEYS (ZONE 684)- EAST WASHINGTON NORTH CASCADES (ZONE 685)- EAST WASHINGTON NORTHEAST (ZONE 686)- EAST WASHINGTON OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS (ZONE 687)- 831 PM PDT FRI AUG 4 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. THE WINDS SUBSIDED AND THE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WERE RISING ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS. $$
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Idaho, 2006Red Flag Warnings in Washington, 2006Every red flag 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.