1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 May 17, 7:05 AM PST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 805 AM PDT TUE MAY 17 2005 .SYNOPSIS...A DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OFF THE WEST COAST IS EXPECTED TO SEND A SERIES OF MOIST PACIFIC STORM SYSTEMS THROUGH THE REGION THIS WEEK. PERIODS OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS MOST OF THE INLAND NORTHWEST OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. && .UPDATE...ISSUING MORNING UPDATE TO DECREASE CLOUD COVER FORECAST OVER BULK OF LOWLAND AREAS OF EASTERN WASHINGTON THIS MORNING BASED UPON FIRST FEW VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGES OF THE DAY. CONVECTIVE CLOUDS PROBABLY A GOOD BET FOR LATER THIS AFTERNOON ALONG WITH SOME LIMITED ISOLATED SHOWER ACTIVITY BASED UPON MORNING KOTX SOUNDING AND PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF HOW MUCH RAINFALL HAS FALLEN OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 217 AM PDT TUE MAY 17 2005) SYNOPSIS...A DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OFF THE WEST COAST IS EXPECTED TO SEND A SERIES OF MOIST PACIFIC STORM SYSTEMS THROUGH THE REGION THIS WEEK. PERIODS OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS MOST OF THE INLAND NORTHWEST OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. DISCUSSION... TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY...AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH IS MOVING THROUGH THE INLAND NORTHWEST AT THIS TIME. EVEN THOUGH MOST OF THE ENERGY DOVE TO OUR SOUTH AND IS NOW PASSING THROUGH NEVADA THERE WAS ENOUGH DYNAMICS TO KEEP SHOWERS GOING OVER THE NORTHEAST WASHINGTON MOUNTAINS AND NORTH IDAHO THROUGH THE NIGHT. AS THE TROUGH EXITS THE AREA THIS MORNING THESE SHOWERS SHOULD TAPER OFF. WEAK SHORTWAVE RIDGING WILL BUILD IN TODAY FOR A BRIEF BREAK BETWEEN SYSTEMS THOUGH A FEW SHOWERS OVER THE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON CANNOT BE RULED OUT. MOIST SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW REDEVELOPS LATE TONIGHT AND WILL SPREAD RAIN ACROSS THE AREA BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THIS RAIN IS THEN FORECAST TO TAPER OFF WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE TROUGH WILL REMAIN OFFSHORE ON THURSDAY WHICH WILL KEEP THE AREA SHOWERY THROUGH THE DAY. CC THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY AS MOIST PACIFIC AIR CONTINUES TO FUNNEL INTO THE REGION ALONG UPPER LEVEL SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW. SHORTWAVE ENERGY TRAVELING ALONG THE BROAD LONGWAVE TROUGH PATTERN ALOFT WILL PROVIDE THE DYNAMICS FOR LARGE SCALE ASCENT. MODELS PROJECT A CONDITIONALLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THE INSTABILITY COUPLED WITH THE PROJECTED DYNAMIC FORCING SHOULD TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN WASHINGTON AND THE IDAHO PANHANDLE WHERE THE HIGHEST INSTABILITY WILL RESIDE...ELSEWHERE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ANTICIPATED. FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY...SHOWERS AND CLOUD CLOVER WILL DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST AS HEIGHTS ALOFT BEGIN TO RISE IN RESPONSE TO AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDING IN FROM THE EASTERN PACIFIC. BY AFTERNOON ONLY LINGERING OROGRAPHIC SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE NORTHEAST WA AND PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS. BY SUNDAY THE RIDGE IS PROJECTED TO BE FIRMLY ENTRENCHED OVER THE REGION PROVIDING CLEAR TO MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES THROUGH MONDAY AND ALLOWING DAYTIME HIGH TEMPERATURES TO REBOUND SLIGHTLY UPWARD OF SEASONAL NORMS. /JVW && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SPOKANE 61 43 63 46 67 46 / 10 20 60 60 30 40 COEUR DALENE 59 42 60 46 68 44 / 10 20 60 60 30 40 PULLMAN 57 45 62 48 68 44 / 10 20 60 60 30 40 LEWISTON 65 47 68 51 69 48 / 10 30 60 50 30 50 COLVILLE 62 40 65 45 68 43 / 10 20 60 60 30 40 SANDPOINT 61 40 65 45 64 44 / 10 20 60 60 30 40 WALLACE 57 37 63 42 60 43 / 10 20 60 60 30 30 MOSES LAKE 67 49 70 48 70 43 / 10 30 60 50 30 30 WENATCHEE 67 47 68 48 68 48 / 10 30 60 60 30 40 OMAK 66 46 68 47 73 44 / 10 20 60 60 30 40 && .OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...NONE. WA...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 613 AM PDT TUE MAY 17 2005 IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>038-041>044-181315- NORTHERN PANHANDLE-COEUR DALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE- CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS-LEWISTON AREA- LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES-NORTHEAST BLUE MOUNTAINS- LOWER GARFIELD AND ASOTIN COUNTIES-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-SPOKANE AREA- NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS-OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS-WENATCHEE AREA- EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES-OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- 613 AM PDT TUE MAY 17 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...NORTH IDAHO...NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON...CENTRAL WASHINGTON...SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON...EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND NORTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...A SERIES OF MOIST PACIFIC WEATHER SYSTEMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION. THESE SYSTEMS WILL CREATE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. DEPENDING ON THE INTENSITY AND MOVEMENT OF THESE SHOWERS...THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCAL URBAN FLOODING AND SMALL STREAM RISES COULD EXIST. NO FLOOD WATCHES OR WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED...BUT THE SITUATION WILL BE CLOSELY MONITORED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF ISSUING LOCAL URBAN/SMALL STREAM ADVISORIES. ...SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT NEED AT THIS TIME.
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 13 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:02 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
On the evening of May 17th, a line of thunderstorms moved across Spokane County. One severe storm dropped up to one inch in diameter hail in a very narrow swath from Four Lakes to just east of Airway Heights. Only one thousand dollars was estimated for crop damage.
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