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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this high wind watch at Jan 21, 2019, 9:15 PM PST for 4 counties in Washington. It took effect at Jan 23, 2019, 12:00 AM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 2019, 9:15 PM PST (05:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 23, 2019, 12:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2019, 11:47 AM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
Counties Adams County, WA, Chelan County, WA, Douglas County, WA, Grant County, WA
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Jan 21, 3:58 PM PST, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 21, 3:58 PM PST, 5 hours 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 3:55 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens | 35 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:55 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield, Grant and 4 more | 23 hr |
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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.