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Special Weather Statement, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2012, 4:43 PM PDT for Kootenai County, Idaho. It was in force for 47 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
- Jul 14, 2012, 4:43 PM PDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2012, 5:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
County Kootenai County, ID
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 459 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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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</html>What forecasters said that day
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 Jul 14, 2:25 PM PDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:25 PM PDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 131 PM PDT SAT JUL 14 2012 IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>038-041>044-152045- 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- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-SPOKANE AREA- NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS-OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS-WENATCHEE AREA- EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES-OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- 131 PM PDT SAT JUL 14 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO... NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...CENTRAL WASHINGTON...EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:15 PM PDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
339 PM PDT SAT JUL 14 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0310 PM HAIL 2 SSE SPOKANE 47.64N 117.39W
07/14/2012 E0.75 INCH SPOKANE WA PUBLIC
0315 PM HAIL 4 SE SPOKANE 47.63N 117.36W
07/14/2012 E1.00 INCH SPOKANE WA TRAINED SPOTTER
DIME-SIZED HAIL WITH A FEW QUARTER-SIZED HAIL. HEAVY
DOWNPOURS AND SOME WATER RUNNING DOWNHILL AND PONDING
NEAR CURBSIDE. SPOTTER SPOKANE 1.
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JCOTELocal storm report, Jul 14, 4:04 PM PDT, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
404 PM PDT SAT JUL 14 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0310 PM HAIL 2 SSE SPOKANE 47.64N 117.39W
07/14/2012 E0.75 INCH SPOKANE WA PUBLIC
0315 PM HAIL 4 SE SPOKANE 47.63N 117.36W
07/14/2012 E1.00 INCH SPOKANE WA TRAINED SPOTTER
DIME-SIZED HAIL WITH A FEW QUARTER-SIZED HAIL. HEAVY
DOWNPOURS AND SOME WATER RUNNING DOWNHILL AND PONDING
NEAR CURBSIDE. SPOTTER SPOKANE 1.
0315 PM FLOOD 3 ESE SPOKANE 47.65N 117.36W
07/14/2012 SPOKANE WA LAW ENFORCEMENT
INTERSTATE-90 NEAR EXIT 283 NEAR THE THOR-FREYA UNDERPASS
FLOODED. COMBINATION OF RAIN AND HAIL. RADAR ESTIMATED
RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 0.5 TO 1.0 INCHES. ESTIMATED 6
INCHES OF WATER ON ROAD. TRAFFIC SLOWED OR STOPPED.
0320 PM HEAVY RAIN 5 S FERNAN LAKE VILLAGE 47.60N 116.75W
07/14/2012 M0.43 INCH KOOTENAI ID TRAINED SPOTTER
HEAVY RAIN MIXED WITH PEA-SIZED HAIL. SPOTTER KOOTENAI
19.
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JCOTESpecial weather statement, Jul 14, 4:08 PM PDT, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 408 PM PDT SAT JUL 14 2012 IDZ002-WAZ036-142345- KOOTENAI ID-SPOKANE WA- 408 PM PDT SAT JUL 14 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... EAST CENTRAL SPOKANE COUNTY IN EASTERN WASHINGTON WEST CENTRAL KOOTENAI COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF IDAHO UNTIL 445 PM PDT AT 400 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIBERTY LAKE..MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. HAIL AROUND ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...AND DIME SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE. INTENSE RAIN RATES WILL ALSO PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... POST FALLS... LAT...LON 4775 11691 4761 11679 4747 11705 4764 11714 TIME...MOT...LOC 2306Z 239DEG 10KT 4760 11700
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:43 PM PDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 443 PM PDT SAT JUL 14 2012 IDZ002-004-150030- KOOTENAI ID- 443 PM PDT SAT JUL 14 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... CENTRAL KOOTENAI COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF IDAHO UNTIL 530 PM PDT AT 435 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF COEUR D'ALENE...OR DIRECTLY OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF LAKE COEUR D'ALENE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER OR LESS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. INTENSE RAIN RATES WILL ALSO PRODUCE LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER AND MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS...BLOCKED CULVERTS AND DRAINAGES. PERSONS ON LAKE COEUR D'ALENE SHOULD PREPARE FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER...INCLUDING WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL CENTRAL KOOTENAI COUNTY... RURAL EASTERN KOOTENAI COUNTY... LAT...LON 4785 11655 4760 11640 4745 11681 4767 11696 TIME...MOT...LOC 2337Z 247DEG 12KT 4761 11671
The office that day
Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 13, 11:39 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Ferry | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 1:13 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Stevens | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 3:15 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Spokane | 45 min |
| Jul 14, 3:51 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | OTX | Spokane | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:20 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | Douglas | 107 min |
| Jul 13, 9:38 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Boundary | 52 min |
| Jul 13, 10:27 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Boundary | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 11:31 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Boundary | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 12:58 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Boundary | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 4:08 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Kootenai | 37 min |
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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.