Alert archive / Washington / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this wind advisory at Mar 23, 2008, 10:40 AM PDT for 8 counties in Washington; Benewah County, Kootenai County, Latah County, Idaho. It took effect at Mar 23, 2008, 5:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2008, 10:40 AM PDT (17:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 23, 2008, 5:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2008, 9:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
Counties Benewah County, ID, Kootenai County, ID, Latah County, ID, Adams County, WA, Chelan 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), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 1429 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 382 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 231740 NPWOTX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 1040 AM PDT SUN MAR 23 2008 IDZ002-003-WAZ033>036-041-043-044-240145- /O.NEW.KOTX.WI.Y.0004.080324T0000Z-080324T0400Z/ COEUR DALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-SPOKANE AREA-WENATCHEE AREA- OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COEUR DALENE...POST FALLS...HAYDEN... MOSCOW...PLUMMER...POTLATCH...GENESEE...PULLMAN...COLFAX... ROSALIA...LA CROSSE...MOSES LAKE...EPHRATA...OTHELLO...QUINCY... RITZVILLE...GRAND COULEE...ODESSA...WILBUR...COULEE CITY... SPOKANE...CHENEY...DAVENPORT...ROCKFORD...WENATCHEE...CHELAN... ENTIAT...CASHMERE...OMAK...OKANOGAN...BREWSTER...BRIDGEPORT... OROVILLE...NESPELEM...WATERVILLE...MANSFIELD 1040 AM PDT SUN MAR 23 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING. A ROBUST COLD FRONT PASSAGE THIS AFTERNOON WILL RESULT IN WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. SUSTAINED SURFACE WINDS WILL GENERALLY BE FROM THE SOUTHWEST AND IN THE 10 TO 25 MPH RANGE. THE FRONT WILL PASS QUICKLY ALLOWING FOR THE GUSTS TO SUBSIDE AFTER 9 PM THIS EVENING. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WIND GUSTS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS76 KOTX 240351 NPWOTX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 851 PM PDT SUN MAR 23 2008 IDZ002-003-WAZ033>036-041-043-044-240500- /O.EXP.KOTX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-080324T0400Z/ COEUR DALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-SPOKANE AREA-WENATCHEE AREA- OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COEUR DALENE...POST FALLS...HAYDEN... MOSCOW...PLUMMER...POTLATCH...GENESEE...PULLMAN...COLFAX... ROSALIA...LA CROSSE...MOSES LAKE...EPHRATA...OTHELLO...QUINCY... RITZVILLE...GRAND COULEE...ODESSA...WILBUR...COULEE CITY... SPOKANE...CHENEY...DAVENPORT...ROCKFORD...WENATCHEE...CHELAN... ENTIAT...CASHMERE...OMAK...OKANOGAN...BREWSTER...BRIDGEPORT... OROVILLE...NESPELEM...WATERVILLE...MANSFIELD 851 PM PDT SUN MAR 23 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING. SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THIS EVENING WITH SOME GUSTS AS HIGH AS 35 MPH. $$
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.