Alert archive / Washington / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this wind advisory at Feb 15, 2007, 1:20 PM PST for Benewah County, Kootenai County, Latah County, Idaho; 7 counties in Washington. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2007, 1:20 PM PST (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2007, 9:16 PM PST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
Counties Benewah County, ID, Kootenai County, ID, Latah County, ID, Adams County, WA, Douglas County, WA, Grant County, WA, Lincoln County, WA, Okanogan County, WA, Spokane County, WA, Whitman County, WA
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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, 9.3 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
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 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 152120 NPWOTX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 120 PM PST THU FEB 15 2007 IDZ002-003-WAZ033>036-044-160530- /O.NEW.KOTX.WI.Y.0004.070215T2120Z-070216T0600Z/ COEUR DALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-SPOKANE AREA- WATERVILLE PLATEAU- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COEUR DALENE...POST FALLS...HAYDEN... MOSCOW...PULLMAN...MOSES LAKE...EPHRATA...OTHELLO...QUINCY... RITZVILLE...COULEE DAM...ODESSA...ELECTRIC CITY...WILBUR... GRAND COULEE...COULEE CITY...SPOKANE...WATERVILLE...MANSFIELD 120 PM PST THU FEB 15 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING. A STRONG FRONT PASSING THROUGH EASTERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN IDAHO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL BRING SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH TO THE AREA. AROUND 10 PM THIS EVENING THE FRONT SHOULD HAVE EXITED THE IDAHO PANHANDLE ALLOWING THE WINDS TO SLACKEN. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS76 KOTX 160048 NPWOTX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 448 PM PST THU FEB 15 2007 IDZ002-003-WAZ033>036-044-160600- /O.CON.KOTX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-070216T0600Z/ COEUR DALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-SPOKANE AREA- WATERVILLE PLATEAU- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COEUR DALENE...POST FALLS...HAYDEN... MOSCOW...PULLMAN...MOSES LAKE...EPHRATA...OTHELLO...QUINCY... RITZVILLE...COULEE DAM...ODESSA...ELECTRIC CITY...WILBUR... GRAND COULEE...COULEE CITY...SPOKANE...WATERVILLE...MANSFIELD 448 PM PST THU FEB 15 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING. FOR THE SPOKANE...COER DALENE...AND PULLMAN AREAS SUSTANED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MPH...ARE EXPECTED BETWEEN 5 PM AND 10 PM. GUSTS OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST AS HIGH AS 44 MPH OCCURRED AT PULLMAN AROUND 3 PM...AND A GUST UP TO 35 MPH WAS OBSERVED AT THE SPOKANE AIRPORT JUST AFTER 3 PM. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN THE UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN WITH THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT AFTER 6 PM. GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH LATE EVENING OUT OF THE NORTHWEST. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
000 WWUS76 KOTX 160315 NPWOTX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 715 PM PST THU FEB 15 2007 IDZ002-003-WAZ033>036-044-160600- /O.CON.KOTX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-070216T0600Z/ COEUR DALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-SPOKANE AREA- WATERVILLE PLATEAU- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COEUR DALENE...POST FALLS...HAYDEN... MOSCOW...PULLMAN...MOSES LAKE...EPHRATA...OTHELLO...QUINCY... RITZVILLE...COULEE DAM...ODESSA...ELECTRIC CITY...WILBUR... GRAND COULEE...COULEE CITY...SPOKANE...WATERVILLE...MANSFIELD 715 PM PST THU FEB 15 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING. THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT THROUGH CENTRAL AND EASTERN WASHINGTON THIS EVENING WILL BRING GUSTY WEST WINDS TO THE UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN THROUGH THE PALOUSE...AS WELL AS THE MOSES LAKE AND SPOKANE AREAS. SUSTAINED WINDS BETWEEN 20 AND 25 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH 10 PM...WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH. AS OF 7 PM...WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 48 MPH HAVE BEEN MEASURED AT THE PULLMAN AIRPORT. WEATHER INSTRUMENTS AT THE EPHRATA AIRPORT MEASURED A 43 MPH GUST...AND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 35 MPH HAVE BEEN OBSERVED AROUND SPOKANE. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
000 WWUS76 KOTX 160516 NPWOTX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 916 PM PST THU FEB 15 2007 ...THREAT FOR STRONG WINDS HAS ENDED... IDZ002-003-WAZ033>036-044-160630- /O.CAN.KOTX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-070216T0600Z/ COEUR DALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-SPOKANE AREA- WATERVILLE PLATEAU- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COEUR DALENE...POST FALLS...HAYDEN... MOSCOW...PULLMAN...MOSES LAKE...EPHRATA...OTHELLO...QUINCY... RITZVILLE...COULEE DAM...ODESSA...ELECTRIC CITY...WILBUR... GRAND COULEE...COULEE CITY...SPOKANE...WATERVILLE...MANSFIELD 916 PM PST THU FEB 15 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN...THE PALOUSE...AS WELL AS THE SPOKANE...AND MOSES LAKE AREAS. WINDS WILL DECREASE OVERNIGHT INTO THE 10 TO 20 MPH RANGE OVER MOST OF THE INLAND NORTHWEST. A FEW GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MIDNIGHT...BUT THE THREAT OF DAMAGING WIND HAS ENDED. $$
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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.