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Dust Storm Warning 9, NWS Spokane, WA

September 29, 2024Lincoln County, Spokane County, Whitman County, Washington

NWS Spokane, WA issued this dust storm warning at Sep 29, 2024, 2:57 PM PDT for Lincoln County, Spokane County, Whitman County, Washington. It was in force for 93 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 29, 2024, 2:57 PM PDT (21:57 UTC)
Expired: Sep 29, 2024, 4:30 PM PDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: NWS Spokane, WA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Lincoln County, WA, Spokane County, WA, Whitman County, WA

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this dust 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 dust storm warning went out at Sep 29, 2:11 PM PDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 29, 2:11 PM PDT, 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 29, 2:01 PM PDT, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 29, 2:31 PM PDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 29, 2:34 PM PDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 29, 2:47 PM PDT, 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 29, 4:54 AM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane and 1 more	14 hr
Sep 29, 4:54 AM PDT	Frost Advisory	OTX	Adams, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane	27 hr
Sep 29, 4:54 AM PDT	Freeze Warning	OTX	Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Whitman	27 hr
Sep 29, 1:04 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	OTX	Adams, Lincoln, Whitman	86 min
Sep 29, 1:08 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	OTX	Grant	34 min
Sep 29, 1:28 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	OTX	Lincoln, Spokane, Whitman	92 min
Sep 29, 2:27 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	OTX	Adams, Lincoln, Whitman	63 min
Sep 29, 3:32 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	OTX	Adams, Lincoln, Whitman	88 min
Sep 29, 3:35 PM PDT	Dust Storm Advisory	OTX	Spokane, Whitman	115 min
Sep 29, 4:32 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	OTX	Spokane, Whitman	38 min
Sep 29, 1:53 PM PDT	Dust Storm Advisory	OTX	Benewah, Kootenai, Latah, Shoshone	82 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.