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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this winter storm watch at Jan 18, 2008, 2:35 PM PST for Lewis County, Nez Perce County, Idaho. It took effect at Jan 19, 2008, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 2008, 2:35 PM PST (22:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 19, 2008, 10:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2008, 4:19 AM PST
- In force
- 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 22:36 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Jan 18, 8:29 AM PST, 6 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 8:29 AM PST, 6 hours 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 2:35 PM PST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | OTX | Asotin, Garfield, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens and 1 more | 44 hr |
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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.