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Wind Advisory 13, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this wind advisory at Nov 23, 2006, 9:21 AM PST for 5 counties in Washington; Benewah County, Kootenai County, Latah County, Idaho. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 23, 2006, 9:21 AM PST (17:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2006, 2:11 PM PST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
Counties Benewah County, ID, Kootenai County, ID, Latah County, ID, Asotin County, WA, Garfield County, WA, Lincoln County, WA, Spokane County, WA, Whitman County, WA
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS76 KOTX 231721 NPWOTX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 921 AM PST THU NOV 23 2006 IDZ002-003-WAZ032-033-036-232300- /O.NEW.KOTX.WI.Y.0013.061123T1721Z-061123T2300Z/ COEUR DALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE- LOWER GARFIELD AND ASOTIN COUNTIES-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- SPOKANE AREA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COEUR DALENE...POST FALLS...HAYDEN... MOSCOW...CLARKSTON...PULLMAN...SPOKANE 921 AM PST THU NOV 23 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG WINDS BEHIND A COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE SPOKANE AND COEUR DALENE AREA AS WELL AS MUCH OF THE PALOUSE THROUGH MID-AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WINDS SPEEDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH LOCALIZED GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. THE WINDS WILL BEGIN TO SUBSIDE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. ANOTHER PERIOD OF VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL POSSIBLY DEVELOP LATER TONIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS76 KOTX 232211 NPWOTX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 211 PM PST THU NOV 23 2006 IDZ002-003-WAZ032-033-036-232315- /O.CAN.KOTX.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-061123T2300Z/ COEUR DALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE- LOWER GARFIELD AND ASOTIN COUNTIES-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- SPOKANE AREA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COEUR DALENE...POST FALLS...HAYDEN... MOSCOW...CLARKSTON...PULLMAN...SPOKANE 211 PM PST THU NOV 23 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ENDED THE WIND ADVISORY WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE PALOUSE AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE SPOKANE AND COEUR DALENE AREA. ALTHOUGH IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE BREEZY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON...SPEEDS WILL REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 4:25 AM PST | Snow Advisory | OTX | Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens | 22 hr |
| Nov 23, 2:33 PM PST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | OTX | Lincoln, Spokane | 12 hr |
| Nov 23, 2:33 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | Spokane, Whitman | 19 hr |
Nearby
Wind Advisories in Washington, 2006Wind Advisories in Idaho, 2006Every wind advisory 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.