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Fire Weather Watch 7, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this fire weather watch at Sep 30, 2012, 3:24 PM PDT for 5 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Oct 1, 2012, 11:00 PM PDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 30, 2012, 3:24 PM PDT (22:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 1, 2012, 11:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Oct 1, 2012, 3:12 PM PDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
Counties Benewah County, ID, Bonner County, ID, Boundary County, ID, Kootenai County, ID, Shoshone County, ID
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 441 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
- 2226 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Sep 30, 2:35 PM PDT, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 2:35 PM PDT, 49 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 30, 5:46 AM PDT, 9 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 546 AM PDT SUN SEP 30 2012 IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>033-036>038-042-011300- NORTHERN PANHANDLE-COEUR D'ALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE- CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS-LEWISTON AREA- LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES-NORTHEAST BLUE MOUNTAINS- LOWER GARFIELD AND ASOTIN COUNTIES-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- SPOKANE AREA-NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS-OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS- EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES- 546 AM PDT SUN SEP 30 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO... NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A STRONG COLD FRONT PASSAGE MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY WILL BRING THE LIKELIHOOD FOR GUSTY NORTHERLY WINDS AND AUTUMN-LIKE TEMPERATURES. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY...ESPECIALLY ALONG EXPOSED RIDGETOPS AND THROUGHOUT NORTH TO SOUTH ORIENTED VALLEYS. WAZ034-035-041-043-044-011300- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-WENATCHEE AREA- OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- 546 AM PDT SUN SEP 30 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON...EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A STRONG COLD FRONT PASSAGE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY WILL BRING THE LIKELIHOOD FOR STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS AND AUTUMN-LIKE TEMPERATURES. WIND GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE OKANOGAN VALLEY...WATERVILLE PLATEAU...AND WESTERN COLUMBIA BASIN. IN ADDITION TO DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS...AREAS OF BLOWING DUST MAY CAUSE REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITIES POTENTIALLY IMPACTING TRAVEL ALONG AREA ROADWAYS.
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.