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Special Weather Statement, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2014, 7:13 PM PDT for Kootenai County, Idaho. It was in force for 62 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
- Aug 19, 2014, 7:13 PM PDT (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2014, 8:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
County Kootenai County, ID
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
225
WWUS86 KOTX 200213
SPSOTX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
713 PM PDT TUE AUG 19 2014
IDZ001-004-200315-
NORTHERN PANHANDLE ID-CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS ID-
713 PM PDT TUE AUG 19 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN KOOTENAI...
NORTHWESTERN SHOSHONE AND SOUTHEASTERN BONNER COUNTIES UNTIL 815 PM
PDT...
AT 710 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12
MILES NORTHEAST OF FOURTH OF JULY PASS...OR 17 MILES EAST OF DALTON
GARDENS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAGEE RANGER STATION...JORDAN CREEK
CAMPGROUND.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 4768 11637 4789 11646 4796 11601 4790 11597
4788 11594 4784 11591 4785 11588 4783 11585
4775 11583 4775 11578
TIME...MOT...LOC 0210Z 257DEG 25KT 4778 11639
$$
BZThe office that day
Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 5:10 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Spokane | 65 min |
| Aug 19, 5:22 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Lincoln | 53 min |
| Aug 19, 5:27 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Lincoln | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 5:49 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Aug 20, 2:53 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Stevens | 22 min |
| Aug 20, 3:51 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | OTX | Chelan, Douglas, Okanogan | 53 hr |
| Aug 20, 4:14 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Ferry | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 6:17 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Kootenai | 58 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.