Alert archive / Washington / High Wind Watches in 2008
High Wind Watch 1, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this high wind watch at Jan 13, 2008, 2:59 PM PST for 6 counties in Washington. It took effect at Jan 14, 2008, 6:00 PM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 2008, 2:59 PM PST (22:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 14, 2008, 6:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2008, 3:53 AM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
Counties Adams County, WA, Chelan County, WA, Douglas County, WA, Grant County, WA, Lincoln County, WA, Okanogan County, WA
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 6:29 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | Adams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan | 4 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.