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Winter Storm Warning 14, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this winter storm warning at Dec 19, 2022, 2:07 PM PST for 5 counties in Washington; 6 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Dec 19, 2022, 9:23 PM PST. It was in force for 31 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 19, 2022, 2:07 PM PST (22:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 19, 2022, 9:23 PM PST
- Expired
- Dec 21, 2022, 4:00 AM PST
- In force
- 31 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Spokane, WA
Counties Benewah County, ID, Bonner County, ID, Boundary County, ID, Kootenai County, ID, Latah County, ID, Shoshone County, ID, Asotin County, WA, Chelan County, WA, Garfield County, WA, Spokane County, WA, Whitman County, WA
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 497 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
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 503 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 storm warning went out at Dec 19, 10:11 AM PST, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 10:11 AM PST, 3 hours 56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 5:52 PM PST | Wind Chill Advisory | OTX | Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan | 44 hr |
| Dec 19, 9:56 AM PST | Wind Chill Watch | OTX | Adams, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 4 more | 28 hr |
| Dec 19, 2:07 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Garfield, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more | 38 hr |
Nearby
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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.