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Special Weather Statement, NWS Spokane, WA

October 11, 2014Bonner County, Idaho

NWS Spokane, WA issued this special weather statement at Oct 11, 2014, 2:49 PM PDT for Bonner County, Idaho. It was in force for 26 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: Oct 11, 2014, 2:49 PM PDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Oct 11, 2014, 3:15 PM PDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Spokane, WA

County Bonner County, ID

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 69 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 Oct 11, 11:44 AM PDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 11, 11:44 AM PDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 11, 2:40 PM PDT, 9 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
240 PM PDT SAT OCT 11 2014

IDZ003-004-112215-
CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS-IDAHO PALOUSE-
240 PM PDT SAT OCT 11 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS...
IDAHO PALOUSE...

AT 239 PM PDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 8 MILES SOUTH OF
PARKLINE...OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. MARIES...MOVING EAST AT 35
MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF WEST CENTRAL
CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS AND NORTHERN IDAHO PALOUSE COUNTIES...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...FERNWOOD...ST. JOE...SANDERS...
EMIDA...TENSED AND SANTA.

LAT...LON 4716 11702 4721 11701 4737 11671 4733 11634
      4704 11634 4706 11679
TIME...MOT...LOC 2139Z 286DEG 35KT 4722 11675

FLIEHMAN

Special weather statement, Oct 11, 2:49 PM PDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
249 PM PDT SAT OCT 11 2014

IDZ001-112215-
NORTHERN PANHANDLE-
249 PM PDT SAT OCT 11 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN PANHANDLE...

AT 248 PM PDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF PRIEST
RIVER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SANDPOINT...PONDERAY...KOOTENAI AND DOVER.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

IF YOU ARE ON NORTHERN PORTIONS OF LAKE PEND OREILLE...GET OUT OF
THE WATER AND MOVE INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING
CAN STRIKE OUT TO 15 MILES FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER... YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE
TO SAFE SHELTER NOW. DO NOT BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 4826 11693 4832 11692 4834 11645 4819 11645
TIME...MOT...LOC 2148Z 271DEG 16KT 4829 11684

SB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 11, 3:02 AM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane and 1 more	17 hr
Oct 11, 2:40 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Benewah	35 min
Oct 11, 3:10 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Bonner	35 min
Oct 11, 3:22 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Bonner	23 min

Nearby

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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.