Alert archive / Washington / Wind Advisories in 2013
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this wind advisory at Apr 27, 2013, 12:22 PM PDT for 6 counties in Washington. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2013, 12:22 PM PDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2013, 8:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
Counties Adams County, WA, Chelan County, WA, Douglas County, WA, Grant County, WA, Lincoln County, WA, Okanogan County, WA
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 2679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
801 WWUS76 KOTX 271922 NPWOTX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 1222 PM PDT SAT APR 27 2013 ...WINDY CONDITIONS TO DEVELOP OVER THE WENATCHEE AREA TO THE UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN THIS AFTERNOON... GUSTY WINDS HAVE BEGAN TO DEVELOP FROM THE WENATCHEE AREA OVER THE WATERVILLE PLATEAU AND INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN AS A COLD FRONT OFF THE PACIFIC APPROACHES. WINDS FUNNELING DOWN THE LEE SIDE OF THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS WILL HELP TO CREATE STRONGER GUSTS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AS WELL. WAZ034-035-041-044-280300- /O.NEW.KOTX.WI.Y.0007.130427T1922Z-130428T0300Z/ MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-WENATCHEE AREA- WATERVILLE PLATEAU- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOSES LAKE...EPHRATA...OTHELLO... QUINCY...RITZVILLE...GRAND COULEE...ODESSA...WILBUR... COULEE CITY...WENATCHEE...CHELAN...ENTIAT...CASHMERE... WATERVILLE...MANSFIELD 1222 PM PDT SAT APR 27 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING: WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO PEAK THIS AFTERNOON. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR IN THE WENATCHEE AREA AND OVER THE WATERVILLE PLATEAU. HOWEVER...STRONG WINDS WILL BE FELT AS FAR EAST AS THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN. * IMPACTS: STRONG WINDS WILL RESULT IN HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. BLOWING DUST WILL LATER BECOME A CONCERN THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE MOSES LAKE AREA AND MAY RESULT IN REDUCED VISIBILITIES ALONG INTERSTATE 90 BETWEEN GEORGE AND RITZVILLE. * WEB PAGE: FOR A DETAILED VIEW OF THE HAZARD AREA VISIT HTTP://WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/WRH/WHV/?WFO=OTX 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
801 WWUS76 KOTX 280245 NPWOTX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 745 PM PDT SAT APR 27 2013 WAZ034-035-041-044-280345- /O.EXP.KOTX.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-130428T0300Z/ MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-WENATCHEE AREA- WATERVILLE PLATEAU- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOSES LAKE...EPHRATA...OTHELLO... QUINCY...RITZVILLE...GRAND COULEE...ODESSA...WILBUR... COULEE CITY...WENATCHEE...CHELAN...ENTIAT...CASHMERE... WATERVILLE...MANSFIELD 745 PM PDT SAT APR 27 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING... WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING. SOME LOCATIONS WILL CONTINUE TO BE BREEZY FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS BUT WIND GUSTS WILL LIGHTEN TO AROUND 15 TO 25 MPH. $$
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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.