Alert archive / Washington / Freezing Rain Advisories in 2014
Freezing Rain Advisory 2, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this freezing rain advisory at Nov 21, 2014, 4:51 PM PST for Adams County, Grant County, Washington. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 21, 2014, 4:51 PM PST (00:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 21, 2014, 9:00 PM PST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
Counties Adams County, WA, Grant County, WA
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freezing rain advisory 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 freezing rain advisory went out at Nov 21, 2:43 PM PST, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 21, 2:43 PM PST, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 21, 6:18 AM PST, 10 hours 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 618 AM PST FRI NOV 21 2014 IDZ002-003-026-027-WAZ031>036-221430- COEUR D'ALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE-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- 618 AM PST FRI NOV 21 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO... NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WINDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ON SATURDAY ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. WET WEATHER WILL LIKELY PERSIST INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH PERIODS OF RAIN AND SNOW. IDZ001-004-WAZ037-038-041>044-221430- NORTHERN PANHANDLE-CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS- NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS-OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS-WENATCHEE AREA- EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES-OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- 618 AM PST FRI NOV 21 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO... CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND NORTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WET WINTER STORM WILL BRING PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW TO THE AREA. THE SNOW WILL BEGIN LATER TODAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT. POCKETS OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE NEAR WENATCHEE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SNOWY WEATHER WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY NEAR THE CASCADES AND OVER THE IDAHO PANHANDLE. ANOTHER ROUND OF SIGNIFICANT SNOW IS EXPECTED OVER THE CASCADES AND IDAHO PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS ON SUNDAY. ACTIVE WINTER WEATHER WILL LIKELY CONTINUE AT TIMES THROUGH MIDWEEK...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE CANADIAN BORDER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 8:49 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | Benewah, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, Shoshone | 37 hr |
Nearby
Freezing Rain Advisories in Washington, 2014Every freezing rain advisory in 2014
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.