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Special Weather Statement, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this special weather statement at Jun 4, 2012, 6:35 PM PDT for Boundary County, Idaho. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2012, 6:35 PM PDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2012, 7:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
County Boundary County, ID
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 4, 6:21 PM PDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 6:21 PM PDT, 14 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 215 PM PDT MON JUN 4 2012 IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>033-036-037-052115- 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- 215 PM PDT MON JUN 4 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO... NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME EASTERN WASHINGTON AND THE IDAHO PANHANDLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ANY THUNDERSTORMS WHICH FORM COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAIN. THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH OVERNIGHT...BUT WIDESPREAD MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE RISES ON AREA CREEKS AND RIVERS. SOME BANK FULL CONDITIONS...LOCAL FLOODING...AS WELL AS MUD OR DEBRIS SLIDES ON STEEP SLOPES WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WAZ034-041-044-052115- MOSES LAKE AREA-WENATCHEE AREA-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- 215 PM PDT MON JUN 4 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON...EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WAZ035-038-043-052115- UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS-OKANOGAN VALLEY- 215 PM PDT MON JUN 4 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE RISES ON AREA CREEKS AND RIVERS. SOME BANK FULL CONDITIONS AND LOCAL FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WAZ042-052115- EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES- 215 PM PDT MON JUN 4 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY GENERALLY NORTH OF LAKE WENATCHEE. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE RISES ON AREA CREEKS AND RIVERS. SOME BANK FULL CONDITIONS AND LOCAL FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. ADDITIONALLY WHEN IT COOLS LATER THIS EVENING WET SLUSHY SNOW MAY BRIEFLY SHOW UP AT SOME ELEVATIONS ABOVE 5000 FEET TONIGHT AND ADD NUISANCE TO CONDUCTED OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AT AND ABOVE THAT ELEVATIONS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY WET SLUSHY SNOW BRIEFLY SHOWING UP AT SOME ELEVATIONS ABOVE 5000 FEET TUESDAY WILL ADD NUISANCE TO CONDUCTED OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AT AND ABOVE THAT ELEVATIONS.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 4, 3:50 PM PDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
350 PM PDT MON JUN 04 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0343 PM HAIL 14 SE POMEROY 46.33N 117.39W
06/04/2012 E1.00 INCH ASOTIN WA PUBLIC
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JCLEVLocal storm report, Jun 4, 5:35 PM PDT, 1 hour before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 5, 12:24 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | Adams, Grant, Lincoln | 99 min |
| Jun 4, 6:01 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Bonner, Kootenai, Shoshone | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 6:50 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Lewis | 40 min |
| Jun 4, 7:07 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Benewah | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 7:30 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Lewis | 15 min |
| Jun 4, 8:52 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Shoshone | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 10:53 AM PDT | River Flood Warning | OTX | Boundary | 11 hr |
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Special Weather Statements in Idaho, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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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.