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Areal Flood Warning 4, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this areal flood warning at Feb 14, 2014, 1:18 PM PST for Lincoln County, Washington. It was in force for 48 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2014, 1:18 PM PST (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2014, 1:00 PM PST
- In force
- 48 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Lincoln County, WA
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Quillayute State, WA (KUIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 456 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Feb 13, 3:27 PM PST, 21 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 3:27 PM PST, 21 hours 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 2:40 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | 14 hr |
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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.