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Winter Weather Advisory 19, NWS Spokane, WA

February 24, 20215 counties in Washington; 8 counties in Idaho

NWS Spokane, WA issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 24, 2021, 11:12 AM PST for 5 counties in Washington; 8 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Feb 25, 2021, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for 35 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 24, 2021, 11:12 AM PST (19:12 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 25, 2021, 4:00 AM PST
Expired
Feb 26, 2021, 3:12 PM PST
In force
35 hr
Issued by
NWS Spokane, WA

Counties Benewah County, ID, Bonner County, ID, Boundary County, ID, Kootenai County, ID, Latah County, ID, Lewis County, ID, Nez Perce County, ID, Shoshone County, ID, Lincoln County, WA, Pend Oreille County, WA, Spokane County, WA, Stevens County, WA, Whitman County, WA

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 48 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 12:00Z on 2021-02-24Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2021-02-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Feb 24, 4:01 AM PST, 7 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 4:01 AM PST, 7 hours 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 24, 3:49 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTXAsotin, Garfield16 hr
Feb 24, 3:02 PM PSTWind AdvisoryOTXAdams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield, Grant and 4 more48 hr

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in Idaho, 2021Winter Weather Advisories in Washington, 2021Every winter weather advisory in 2021

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.