Alert archive / Idaho / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 13, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this wind advisory at Dec 27, 2011, 2:39 PM PST for Lewis County, Nez Perce County, Idaho. It took effect at Dec 27, 2011, 9:00 PM PST. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2011, 2:39 PM PST (22:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 27, 2011, 9:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2011, 1:00 PM PST
- In force
- 16 hr
- 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 22:43 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, 10.7 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
- 735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
429 WWUS76 KOTX 272239 NPWOTX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 239 PM PST TUE DEC 27 2011 IDZ027-280645- /O.NEW.KOTX.WI.Y.0013.111228T0500Z-111228T2100Z/ LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CRAIGMONT...NEZPERCE...WINCHESTER 239 PM PST TUE DEC 27 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 PM PST WEDNESDAY ABOVE 2000 FEET... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY ABOVE 2000 FEET FOR THE CAMAS PRAIRIE...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 PM PST WEDNESDAY. * WINDS...SOUTH 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE THIS EVENING...PEAKING DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ON WEDNESDAY. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS ACROSS EXPOSED PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 95 WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
769 WWUS76 KOTX 280424 NPWOTX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 824 PM PST TUE DEC 27 2011 IDZ027-281500- /O.CON.KOTX.WI.Y.0013.111228T0500Z-111228T2100Z/ LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CRAIGMONT...NEZPERCE...WINCHESTER 824 PM PST TUE DEC 27 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM PST WEDNESDAY ABOVE 2000 FEET... * WINDS...SOUTH 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE THIS EVENING...PEAKING DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ON WEDNESDAY. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS ACROSS EXPOSED PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 95 WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
229 WWUS76 KOTX 282058 NPWOTX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 1258 PM PST WED DEC 28 2011 IDZ027-282200- /O.EXP.KOTX.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-111228T2100Z/ LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CRAIGMONT...NEZPERCE...WINCHESTER 1258 PM PST WED DEC 28 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 1 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON ABOVE 2000 FEET... THE WIND ADVISORY ABOVE 2000 FEET WILL EXPIRE AT 1 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON. BREEZY AND GUSTY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON...BUT WINDS WILL NOT ACHIEVE WIND ADVISORY SPEEDS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 11:19 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai, Latah, Shoshone | 11 hr |
Nearby
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.