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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Spokane, WA
NWS Spokane, WA issued this winter storm warning at Feb 27, 2024, 3:59 AM PST for 4 counties in Washington; 6 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Feb 27, 2024, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 51 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
- Feb 27, 2024, 3:59 AM PST (11:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 27, 2024, 4:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2024, 7:00 PM PST
- In force
- 51 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, Okanogan County, WA
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:03 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
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2097 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 Feb 26, 9:08 PM PST, 6 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 9:08 PM PST, 6 hours 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Spokane, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 3:59 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | Chelan, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens and 1 more | 30 hr |
| Feb 27, 9:57 AM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | Adams, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan and 3 more | 48 hr |
| Feb 27, 12:21 PM PST | High Wind Watch | OTX | Lewis, Nez Perce | 22 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.