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Winter Storm Watch 10, NWS Spokane, WA

October 31, 20144 counties in Idaho

NWS Spokane, WA issued this winter storm watch at Oct 31, 2014, 5:19 PM PDT for 4 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Nov 1, 2014, 5:00 PM PDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 31, 2014, 5:19 PM PDT (00:19 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 1, 2014, 5:00 PM PDT
Expired
Nov 1, 2014, 3:44 PM PDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Spokane, WA

Counties Benewah County, ID, Kootenai County, ID, Latah County, ID, Shoshone County, ID

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 49 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 2014-11-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 2014-11-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 1, 3:44 PM PDTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTXBenewah, Kootenai, Latah, Shoshone12 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Idaho, 2014Every winter storm watch 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.