Alert archive / Washington / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 14, 2007, 11:31 AM PDT for Lincoln County, Washington. It was in force for 29 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
- Sep 14, 2007, 11:31 AM PDT (18:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2007, 12:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- Unknown
County Lincoln County, WA
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 2819 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS56 KOTX 141833 CCA FFWOTX WAC043-141900- /T.COR.KOTX.FF.W.0002.070914T1831Z-070914T1900Z/ /00000.U.GO.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TEST...FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED...TEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 1131 AM PDT FRI SEP 14 2007 ...THIS MESSAGE IS FOR TEST PURPOSES ONLY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A * THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR A GLACIAL LAKE DAM OUTBURST IN... CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON... * UNTIL NOON PDT * THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. AT 1131 AM PDT...A GLACIER AT NOWHERE HAS MELTED...RELEASING LARGE QUANTITIES OF IMPOUNDED WATER AND CAUSING FLASH FLOODING. * THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. AFFECTED LOCATIONS INCLUDE DAVENPORT THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. DO NOT TAKE ACTION BASED ON THIS MESSAGE. LAT...LON 4771 11790 4733 11790 4733 11846 4771 11846 $$ FONTENOT
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS76 KOTX 141933 FFSOTX TEST...FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...TEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 1233 PM PDT FRI SEP 14 2007 ...THIS MESSAGE IS FOR TEST PURPOSES ONLY... WAC043-141943- /T.EXP.KOTX.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070914T1930Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ LINCOLN WA- 1233 PM PDT FRI SEP 14 2007 ...THIS MESSAGE IS FOR TEST PURPOSES ONLY... ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY... THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. DO NOT TAKE ACTION BASED ON THIS MESSAGE. LAT...LON 4771 11790 4733 11790 4733 11846 4771 11846 TIME...MOT...LOC 1835Z 180DEG 0KT 4752 11818 $$ FONTENOT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 9:26 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | OTX | Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Sep 14, 12:35 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | OTX | Lincoln | 115 min |
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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.