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Special Weather Statement, NWS Seattle, WA
NWS Seattle, WA issued this special weather statement at Nov 9, 2021, 6:29 AM PST for Island County, Washington. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 9, 2021, 6:29 AM PST (14:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2021, 7:15 AM PST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Seattle, WA
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 30
County Island County, WA
The radar
The Seattle radar (KATX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Quillayute State, WA (KUIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 887 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Nov 9, 3:21 AM PST, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 9, 3:21 AM PST, 3 hours 8 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Nov 9, 1:33 AM PST, 4 hours 56 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Seattle, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 10:15 PM PST | River Flood Warning | SEW | Mason | 46 hr |
| Nov 9, 12:15 AM PST | Gale Warning | SEW | 20 hr | |
| Nov 9, 12:15 AM PST | Storm Warning | SEW | 7 hr | |
| Nov 9, 1:50 AM PST | High Wind Warning | SEW | San Juan | 8 hr |
| Nov 9, 4:04 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Clallam | 26 min |
| Nov 9, 7:17 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Skagit, Whatcom | 28 min |
| Nov 9, 11:15 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Grays Harbor | 45 min |
| Nov 9, 11:23 AM PST | Special Marine Warning | SEW | 52 min | |
| Nov 9, 11:40 AM PST | Tornado Warning | SEW | Kitsap | 35 min |
| Nov 9, 11:59 AM PST | Tornado Warning | SEW | Kitsap | 17 min |
| Nov 9, 12:01 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | SEW | 44 min | |
| Nov 9, 12:24 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Mason | 51 min |
| Nov 9, 12:58 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Clallam | 32 min |
| Nov 9, 1:36 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Kitsap | 39 min |
| Nov 9, 1:52 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Grays Harbor | 38 min |
| Nov 9, 2:00 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SEW | Grays Harbor, Mason | 30 min |
| Nov 9, 2:14 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Snohomish | 46 min |
| Nov 9, 2:27 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SEW | Mason, Thurston | 33 min |
| Nov 9, 2:38 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Kitsap | 37 min |
| Nov 9, 2:41 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | SEW | 28 min | |
| Nov 9, 2:50 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | SEW | Grays Harbor | 25 min |
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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.