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Special Weather Statement, NWS Spokane, WA

August 7, 2025Benewah County, Idaho

NWS Spokane, WA issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2025, 3:29 PM PDT for Benewah County, Idaho. It was in force for 31 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: Aug 7, 2025, 3:29 PM PDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2025, 4:00 PM PDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Spokane, WA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 30

County Benewah County, ID

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 409 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 Spokane, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 7, 3:15 PM PDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:15 PM PDT, 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 1:44 PM PDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 1:53 PM PDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 7, 1:56 PM PDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 2:43 PM PDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 3:11 PM PDT, 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 3:29 PM PDT, 0 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
Aug 6, 6:06 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lincoln	24 min
Aug 6, 6:29 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lincoln	31 min
Aug 6, 6:53 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lincoln	37 min
Aug 6, 7:01 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lincoln	29 min
Aug 6, 7:28 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lincoln	32 min
Aug 7, 9:33 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Ferry	27 min
Aug 7, 11:08 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Ferry	37 min
Aug 7, 11:16 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Grant	29 min
Aug 7, 11:39 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Ferry	36 min
Aug 7, 11:43 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Grant	32 min
Aug 7, 11:44 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Ferry	31 min
Aug 7, 11:46 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Grant	29 min
Aug 7, 11:50 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	Ferry, Lincoln, Okanogan	4 min
Aug 7, 11:54 AM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	OTX	Ferry, Lincoln, Okanogan	2 hr
Aug 7, 12:05 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Adams	25 min
Aug 7, 12:08 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Grant	37 min
Aug 7, 12:13 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Ferry	32 min
Aug 7, 12:29 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Adams	31 min
Aug 7, 12:34 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lincoln	26 min
Aug 7, 12:42 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Grant	33 min
Aug 7, 12:56 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lincoln	34 min
Aug 7, 1:02 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Stevens	28 min
Aug 7, 1:13 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Adams	32 min
Aug 7, 4:24 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Pend Oreille	36 min
Aug 7, 9:46 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Latah	29 min
Aug 7, 11:10 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lewis	35 min
Aug 7, 11:46 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Boundary	29 min
Aug 7, 12:39 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Bonner	36 min
Aug 7, 12:42 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Shoshone	33 min
Aug 7, 12:44 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Nez Perce	31 min
Aug 7, 12:53 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Nez Perce	23 min
Aug 7, 1:14 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lewis	46 min
Aug 7, 1:16 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Boundary	29 min
Aug 7, 1:20 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Lewis	25 min
Aug 7, 1:44 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lewis	31 min
Aug 7, 1:53 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Shoshone	22 min
Aug 7, 2:43 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Bonner	32 min
Aug 7, 3:11 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lewis	34 min
Aug 7, 4:09 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Shoshone	36 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.