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Snow Advisory 16, NWS Spokane, WA

March 26, 2007Lewis County, Nez Perce County, Idaho

NWS Spokane, WA issued this snow advisory at Mar 26, 2007, 8:02 PM PDT for Lewis County, Nez Perce County, Idaho. It took effect at Mar 27, 2007, 5:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 26, 2007, 8:02 PM PDT (03:02 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 27, 2007, 5:00 AM PDT
Expired
Mar 27, 2007, 2:13 PM PDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Spokane, WA

Counties Lewis County, ID, Nez Perce County, ID

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 303 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2007-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 17 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2007-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 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
17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2555 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 2:22 PM PDTWind AdvisoryOTXAdams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant7 hr

Nearby

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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.