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Snow Advisory 24, NWS Spokane, WA

December 9, 20074 counties in Idaho

NWS Spokane, WA issued this snow advisory at Dec 9, 2007, 2:31 PM PST for 4 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Dec 9, 2007, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 9, 2007, 2:31 PM PST (22:31 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 9, 2007, 10:00 PM PST
Expired
Dec 10, 2007, 2:14 AM PST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Spokane, WA

Counties Benewah County, ID, Kootenai County, ID, Latah County, ID, Shoshone County, ID

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 49 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 2007-12-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2007-12-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this snow advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Spokane, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this snow advisory went out at Dec 9, 12:26 PM PST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 9, 12:26 PM PST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 9, 1:47 PM PST, 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
147 PM PST SUN DEC 9 2007

IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>038-041>044-101400-
NORTHERN PANHANDLE-COEUR DALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE-
CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS-LEWISTON AREA-
LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES-NORTHEAST BLUE MOUNTAINS-
LOWER GARFIELD AND ASOTIN COUNTIES-WASHINGTON PALOUSE-
MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-SPOKANE AREA-
NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS-OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS-WENATCHEE AREA-
EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES-OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU-
147 PM PST SUN DEC 9 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO...
NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...CENTRAL WASHINGTON...EAST CENTRAL
WASHINGTON...NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND
SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
LIGHT SNOWFALL WILL ACCOMPANY A PASSING FRONT TODAY...POSSIBLY
BRINGING AN INCH TO LOCATIONS NEAR MOSES LAKE...AND A BIT MORE FOR
AREAS FROM SPOKANE DOWN TO PULLMAN AND POINTS TO THE EAST.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NEXT WEATHER SYSTEM OF INTEREST THAT MAY BRING SIGNIFICANT
SNOWFALL TO JUST ABOUT ALL OF EASTERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN
IDAHO...REGARDLESS OF ELEVATION...IS EXPECTED TO PASS FRIDAY AND
FRIDAY NIGHT.

Nearby

Snow Advisories in Idaho, 2007Every snow advisory in 2007

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.