Tornado in Idaho, June 25, 2004

Name: Tornado in Idaho, June 25, 2004
Start: 2004-06-25T16:12
End: 2004-06-25T16:25
Location: Idaho

June 25, 2004 · NWS OTX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $100,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 25, 1:30 PM PST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:30 PM PST, 2 hours 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WASHINGTON
230 PM PDT FRI JUN 25 2004

.SYNOPSIS...
THE NARROW UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WHICH HAS PROVIDED THE REGION WITH ABOVE
NORMAL TEMPERATURES...WILL BREAK DOWN ON SATURDAY WITH THE ARRIVAL
OF A WEAK UPPER TROUGH. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL INCREASE ACROSS
THE INLAND NORTHWEST ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING
HOURS. A BRIEF COOL DOWN IS EXPECTED FOR SUNDAY. WEAK WESTERLY FLOW
WILL PREVAIL INTO NEXT WEEK WITH MORE WARM AND UNSTABLE WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...UPPER RIDGE AXIS...STILL POISED OVER ERN
WA...WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN OVERNIGHT INTO SATURDAY. DEFORMATION
BANDS ACROSS SRN BC IN ADDITION TO THE ELEVATED HEAT SOURCE HAS
PROMPTED ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY CONFINED MAINLY TO
THE MOUNTAINS. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO DIMINISH OVERNIGHT WITH LACK
OF ANY LINGERING DYNAMICS. THE BIG WEATHER CHANGE WILL ARRIVE ON
SATURDAY AS THE RIDGE AXIS BREAKS DOWN AS A NEGATIVELY TILTED
PACIFIC TROUGH BRUSHES ACROSS THE AREA. THE TREND WITH THIS TROUGH
HAS BEEN SLOWER AND FARTHER OFFSHORE. THIS WILL PRODUCE LESS WIND
ACROSS THE REGION...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE LEE OF THE CASCADES
WHERE DOWN-SLOPING CONDITIONS WILL PEAK BY SAT EVENING. A
COMBINATION OF STRONG DYNAMICS AND IMPRESSIVE INSTABILITY WILL LEAD
TO A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS STARTING IN THE CASCADES BY 18Z...AND
SPREADING EASTWARD ACROSS NE WA AND THE PANHANDLE IN THE EVENING
HOURS. CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WILL DECREASE SATURDAY NIGHT...WHILE THE
UPPER LEVEL LOW LIFTS NORTHWARD AND WEAKENS OVER BC. THIS WILL
PLACE THE INLAND NW UNDER WEAK WESTERLY FLOW FOR SUNDAY INTO MONDAY.
THE 850 MB THERMAL THROUGH SHIFTS INTO MT BY SUNDAY FOR A BRIEF DAY
OF COOLING OF ABOUT 5 DEGREES...BUT BEGINS TO NUDGE BACK TO THE
WEST FOR MORE WARM CONDITIONS. WILL EXPECT MORE DIURNALLY DRIVEN
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE NRN MOUNTAINS. /RFOX.

MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...THE REGION REMAINS UNDER A GENTLE WEST
TO SOUTHWEST FLOW WITH WEAK IMPULSES RIPPLING THROUGH THE FLOW.
THE LINGERING UPPER LOW LIFTS INTO NRN BC...WHILE A BROAD TROUGH
DEVELOPS OVER CA.  THE 850 MB THERMAL RIDGE NUDGES BACK TO THE WA/ID
BORDER BY MID WEEK FOR A RETURN OF MORE UNSEASONABLY WARM CONDITIONS.
THE ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN UNSTABLE WITH MORE ROUNDS OF AFTERNOON AND
EVENING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...ESPECIALLY IN THE ERN ZONES. THE GFS
SHOWS A KICKER TO PUSH AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AXIS INTO THE REGION
BY FRIDAY WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER CONDITIONS. /RFOX.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...

SPOKANE        064 089 057 083 054 084/ 10 30 30 20 20 10
COEUR DALENE  062 085 056 080 050 081/ 20 40 30 20 20 10
PULLMAN        058 086 054 079 049 080/ 10 30 30 20 20 10
LEWISTON       065 092 062 086 058 087/ 10 30 20 20 20 05
COLVILLE       060 089 057 083 050 084/ 20 40 30 40 20 20
SANDPOINT      055 082 055 083 047 084/ 20 40 30 40 20 20
WALLACE        057 075 050 074 047 075/ 20 40 40 30 20 20
MOSES LAKE     062 088 061 085 055 086/ 10 20 10 05 10 05
WENATCHEE      069 089 064 085 060 086/ 10 30 20 05 10 05
OMAK           064 089 064 088 053 089/ 10 20 20 05 10 10
&&

.OTX...
ID...NONE.
WA...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 2:25 PM PST, 1 hour 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
325 PM PDT FRI JUN 25 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0324 PM     HAIL             REPUBLIC                48.65N 118.73W
06/25/2004  0.75 INCH        FERRY              WA   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

RJM

Local storm report, Jun 25, 2:49 PM PST, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
349 PM PDT FRI JUN 25 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0324 PM     HAIL             REPUBLIC                48.65N 118.73W
06/25/2004  0.75 INCH        FERRY              WA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

RJM

Local storm report, Jun 25, 3:06 PM PST, 1 hour 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
406 PM PDT FRI JUN 25 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0345 PM     HAIL             REPUBLIC                48.65N 118.73W
06/25/2004  1.75 INCH        FERRY              WA   PUBLIC

0345 PM     HAIL             REPUBLIC                48.65N 118.73W
06/25/2004  1.25 INCH        FERRY              WA   PUBLIC

0358 PM     FLASH FLOOD      REPUBLIC                48.65N 118.73W
06/25/2004                   FERRY              WA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            MUDSLIDE COVERED PORTION OF KLONDIKE ROAD

0400 PM     FLASH FLOOD      REPUBLIC                48.65N 118.73W
06/25/2004                   FERRY              WA   PUBLIC

            SOME DIRT ROADS OUTSIDE OF REPUBLIC HAVE WASHED OUT.
            WATER OVER ROADS NEAR THE HIGH SCHOOL IS ONE FOOT DEEP.
            WATER IN SOME BASEMENTS.

&&

RJM

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:11 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Bonner

When: June 25, 4:12 PM PST to 4:25 PM PST
Where: Bonner County, 2 mi N of Coolin
Rating: F0
Path length: 4 mi
Path width: 0.1 yd
Property damage: $100,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 48.517, -116.833

A severe thunderstorm over Bonner County during the evening of June 25th produced a tornado. The tornado formed over Priest Lake about two miles north of Coolin. The tornado moved onshore and passed through the town of Coolin before dissipating south of the town. Eight homes and businesses in the town of Coolin were damaged and the roof of a fire station was peeled off as the tornado passed through the town.

What these are

Tornado: A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Idaho in 2004 Every state in 2004 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Idaho, 2004 Warnings in Idaho, June 2004

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5408106.