Alert archive / Washington / Flood Watches in 2015
Flood Watch 1, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this flood watch at Feb 6, 2015, 2:25 PM PST for 7 counties in Washington; 6 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Feb 6, 2015, 3:00 PM PST. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2015, 2:25 PM PST (22:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2015, 3:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2015, 9:52 AM PST
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Benewah County, ID, Bonner County, ID, Boundary County, ID, Kootenai County, ID, Latah County, ID, Shoshone County, ID, Chelan County, WA, Douglas County, WA, Ferry County, WA, Okanogan County, WA, Pend Oreille County, WA, Spokane County, WA, Stevens County, WA
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 1723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Feb 6, 10:39 AM PST, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 10:39 AM PST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 634 AM PST FRI FEB 6 2015 IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>033-036-037-042-071445- NORTHERN PANHANDLE-COEUR D'ALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE- CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS-LEWISTON AREA- LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES-NORTHEAST BLUE MOUNTAINS- LOWER GARFIELD AND ASOTIN COUNTIES-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- SPOKANE AREA-NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS-EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES- 634 AM PST FRI FEB 6 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO... NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...NORTH 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 A MILD...WINDY...AND WET WEATHER PATTERN IS EXPECTED THROUGH MONDAY. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE IDAHO PANHANDLE AND FAR NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COULD RECEIVE 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL BY MONDAY. UP TO 5 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION COULD FALL OVER THE CASCADE CREST DURING THIS TIME FRAME. THE COMBINATION OF RAIN AND MELTING SNOW WILL CONTRIBUTE TO RISES ON RIVERS...CREEKS...AND STREAMS. AREAS WITH STEEP TERRAIN IN NORTH IDAHO AND IN THE CASCADES WILL ALSO HAVE A HEIGHTENED POTENTIAL FOR MUD AND ROCK SLIDES. WAZ034-035-038-041-043-044-071445- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS- WENATCHEE AREA-OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- 634 AM PST FRI FEB 6 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON...EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 6, 8:48 AM PST, 5 hours 37 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 5:53 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Spokane, Stevens | 82 min |
Nearby
Flood Watches in Washington, 2015Flood Watches in Idaho, 2015Every flood watch in 2015
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.