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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Spokane, WA

July 17, 2026Lincoln County, Washington

NWS Spokane, WA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2026, 4:33 AM PDT for Lincoln County, Washington. It was in force for 42 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: Jul 17, 2026, 4:33 AM PDT (11:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2026, 5:15 AM PDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Spokane, WA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lincoln County, WA

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 947 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 17, 12:04 AM PDT, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 12:04 AM PDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 2:43 AM PDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 2:49 AM PDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 3:08 AM PDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 3:14 AM PDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 3:34 AM PDT, 59 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
Jul 16, 8:50 PM PDT	Red Flag Warning	OTX	Douglas, Grant, Okanogan	24 hr
Jul 17, 1:37 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Douglas	23 min
Jul 17, 1:40 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Okanogan	35 min
Jul 17, 1:44 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Okanogan	31 min
Jul 17, 2:08 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Lincoln	37 min
Jul 17, 2:13 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Douglas	32 min
Jul 17, 2:20 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Okanogan	25 min
Jul 17, 2:26 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Okanogan	34 min
Jul 17, 2:31 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Grant	29 min
Jul 17, 2:49 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Okanogan	26 min
Jul 17, 3:08 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Douglas	37 min
Jul 17, 3:18 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Ferry	27 min
Jul 17, 3:34 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Ferry	26 min
Jul 17, 4:46 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Ferry	29 min
Jul 17, 4:57 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Ferry	33 min
Jul 17, 5:05 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Stevens	25 min
Jul 17, 5:09 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Stevens	36 min
Jul 17, 5:18 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Ferry	42 min
Jul 17, 5:34 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Stevens	41 min
Jul 17, 5:39 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Pend Oreille	36 min
Jul 17, 5:58 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Stevens	32 min
Jul 17, 6:31 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Stevens	44 min
Jul 17, 6:40 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Spokane	50 min
Jul 16, 5:00 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	Lewis	15 min
Jul 16, 11:29 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Kootenai	31 min
Jul 16, 11:29 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Kootenai	31 min
Jul 17, 12:41 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Bonner	34 min
Jul 17, 2:43 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Benewah	32 min
Jul 17, 3:14 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	Kootenai	31 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.