Alert archive / Idaho / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2019
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2019, 6:16 PM PDT for Kootenai County, Idaho. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2019, 6:16 PM PDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2019, 7:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Kootenai County, ID
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 6:45 PM PDT | HAIL 1.5 | 7 E Fernan Lake Village, ID | SMALL HAIL BLANKETING THE GROUND TO A DEPTH OF 2 INCHES. MANY LARGER HAILSTONES EMBEDDED. SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO YARD PLANTS. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 10 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
- 746 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2031 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
376
WUUS56 KOTX 110116
SVROTX
IDC055-110200-
/O.NEW.KOTX.SV.W.0021.190811T0116Z-190811T0200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Spokane WA
616 PM PDT Sat Aug 10 2019
The National Weather Service in Spokane has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
East central Kootenai County in the Panhandle of Idaho...
* Until 700 PM PDT.
* At 616 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Fourth Of
July Pass, or 11 miles east of Coeur D'alene, and is nearly
stationary.
HAZARD...Quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Fourth Of July Pass and Wolf Creek Campground.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 4761 11633 4758 11660 4765 11672 4773 11663
4777 11649
TIME...MOT...LOC 0116Z 149DEG 1KT 4764 11655
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
RPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 5:03 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Kootenai, Shoshone | 45 min |
| Aug 10, 5:08 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Benewah, Kootenai | 52 min |
| Aug 10, 5:17 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Boundary | 43 min |
| Aug 10, 5:42 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Bonner | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 5:49 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Boundary | 26 min |
| Aug 10, 5:53 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Benewah, Kootenai | 52 min |
| Aug 10, 5:56 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | Bonner, Boundary | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:10 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Shoshone | 50 min |
| Aug 10, 6:20 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Boundary | 55 min |
| Aug 10, 6:37 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Kootenai | 53 min |
| Aug 10, 6:39 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Bonner | 51 min |
| Aug 10, 7:14 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | Bonner, Kootenai | 24 min |
| Aug 10, 7:34 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Bonner | 41 min |
| Aug 10, 7:52 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | OTX | Bonner, Shoshone | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 8:28 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai, Shoshone | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 8:32 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | Bonner | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 9:10 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | Bonner, Boundary | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 10:03 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | Kootenai | 90 min |
| Aug 11, 11:45 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | Lewis, Nez Perce | 103 min |
| Aug 11, 2:37 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | Boundary | 38 min |
| Aug 11, 3:16 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | Bonner | 3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.