A brief land spout tornado touched down six miles southwest of Kettle Falls, or 14 miles north of Inchelium. This brief tornado resulted from a small convective shower.
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A brief land spout tornado touched down six miles southwest of Kettle Falls, or 14 miles north of Inchelium. This brief tornado resulted from a small convective shower. The tornado damaged the roof of a garage. The path length and width of the tornado are estimated.
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 Apr 25, 1:26 PM PST, 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 226 PM PDT FRI APR 25 2008 .SYNOPSIS...THE LAST IN A SERIES OF WEATHER DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE OUT OF THE REGION THIS EVENING. HIGH PRESSURE THEN BUILDS INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST THIS WEEKEND FOR WARM AND DRY WEATHER...BEFORE THE NEXT SYSTEM MOVES IN AND RETURNS THE REGION TO COOLER AND UNSETTLED WEATHER SUNDAY NIGHT. && .DISCUSSION... TONIGHT...EXITING COLD POOL/TROF REFLECTED IN -30 TO -34 DEG C AT 00Z ALONG WITH PROG LCL TEMPERATURES ON THE WARM SIDE OF -5 DEG C MERIT MERIT CONTINUATION OF VERY LOW POPS INTO THE EVENING THAT SEGUE INTO A DRY FORECAST OVERNIGHT. THUNDERSTORM WORDING FOR THE EXTREME NORTH MIGHT ONLY BE NEEDED UNTIL 6 PM TODAY AT THE LATEST. /PELATTI SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...UPPER LEVEL RIDGE MOVES DIRECTLY OVER CENTRAL WASHINGTON SATURDAY. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY DRY AND AM THEREFORE EXPECTING SUNNY SKIES SAT. TEMPERATURES WILL WARM 5 TO 10 DEGREES SATURDAY COMPARED TO FRIDAY...AND WE WILL FINALLY REACH NEAR AVERAGE READINGS FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. SADLY THE RIDGE IS SHORT LIVED AND SUNDAY THE RIDGE IS PUSHED TO THE EAST. THIS OPEN UPS EASTERN WA AND NORTH ID TO SOUTHWEST FLOW AND AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE. EXPECT AN INCREASE IN MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS ON SUNDAY. HAVE COOLED SUNDAYS TEMP A BIT...BECAUSE OF THE ADDITIONAL CLOUD COVER...BUT TEMPERATURES ACROSS EASTERN WA AND NORTH ID SHOULD BE A FEW DEGREES WARMER THAN SATURDAY. MODELS HAVE BEEN HINTING AT A WAVE MOVING ACROSS SUNDAY EVENING. BOTH THE NAM AND GFS SHOW A QPF BULLSEYE SUNDAY EVENING IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WA AND CENTRAL ID. HAVE INCREASED CHANCE OF PRECIP ACROSS THE PALOUSE DURING THIS TIME AS THE WAVE PASSES...BUT THERE IS STILL MODEL UNCERTAINTY AND DID NOT WANT TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE FORECAST. MONDAY THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH NEARS THE WEST COAST AND A WAVE MOVES INTO NORTHERN WA FOR AN INCREASED CHANCE OF PRECIP. /NISBET MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...THE PACIFIC NW RETURNS TO A COOLER AND UNSETTLED PATTERN AS THE BROAD LOW NOW CENTERED JUST WEST OF 140W MIGRATES INLAND. MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH WASHINGTON AND INTO IDAHO TOWARD DAYBREAK...BRIEFLY STALLING AS A DISTURBANCE PIVOTS AROUND THE BROADER LOW. GUIDANCE CONTINUES TO INDICATE DECENT FRONTOGENETIC LIFT BACKED BY A LEAST WEAK DIFFLUENCE AT 500 MB AND A JET STREAK. THE BEST MOISTURE LAYS DIRECTLY ALONG THE FRONT AND OVER THE CASCADES. THIS WILL BRING A HIGH CHANCE OF PRECIP TO THE PANHANDLE AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON ZONES...AS WELL AS OVER THE CASCADES. THE LEE SIDE ZONES AND DEEPER BASIN ZONES WILL JUST HAVE SLIGHT TO LOW-END CHANCE POPS...WHERE MOISTURE IS NOT AS DEEP. AS THE UPPER LOW STARTS TO MOVE INLAND AND INSTABILITY INCREASES THE PRECIP WILL BECOME SHOWERY. TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...THE UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO ROTATE INLAND AND THE FRONT STALLED NEAR THE SOUTHEAST CWA BEGINS TO PUSH EAST AGAIN. HOWEVER THERE REMAINS A FAIR AMOUNT OF SPREAD AS TO PRECISELY WHERE THE CORE OF THE LOW TRACKS. THE GFS/ECMWF TRACK THE CORE SOUTHEAST OVER OREGON AND TOWARD THE FOUR CORNERS AREA. THE GEFS/DGEX/CANADIAN TAKE THE CORE TOWARD THE WY/ID/MT BORDER. GUIDANCE SHOWS SEVERAL VORT LOBES PIVOTING AROUND THE BROAD LOW TOO AND A POTENTIAL DEFORMATION ZONE TO HELP FOCUS PRECIP. THERE IS STILL TOO MUCH DISAGREEMENT TO PINPOINT PRECISELY WHERE THESE FEATURES MAY TRACK OR SET-UP. THE FORECAST CONTINUES TO INDICATE A GENERAL ABOVE NORMAL CHANCE FOR PRECIP AND BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...THERE IS SUGGESTION OF WEAK SHORT-WAVE RIDGING BEFORE ANOTHER SHORT-WAVE DISTURBANCE DROPS DOWN FROM THE NW. THE FORECAST CONTINUES TO INDICATE A RISK FOR PRECIP...BUT A SLIGHT DOWNWARD TREND IN OVERALL POPS COMPARED TO EARLIER IN THE PERIOD. TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO REBOUND SLIGHTLY...BUT STILL REMAIN BELOW AVERAGE. /JCOTE && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS OVER TAF SITES THROUGH 18Z TOMORROW EXPECTED. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS WITH A VERY SMALL CHANCE OF A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO OVER THE MOUNTAINS TO 3Z SATURDAY COULD PRODUCE SPOTTY MVFR CONDITIONS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SPOKANE 28 58 37 64 42 60 / 10 0 0 10 20 20 COEUR DALENE 27 57 35 64 40 60 / 10 0 0 10 20 20 PULLMAN 30 59 39 65 43 60 / 10 0 0 10 30 20 LEWISTON 34 67 41 71 46 67 / 10 0 0 0 20 20 COLVILLE 25 61 35 64 40 61 / 10 0 0 10 20 30 SANDPOINT 26 55 32 61 38 58 / 10 0 0 10 20 40 KELLOGG 24 56 33 62 39 58 / 20 0 0 10 40 50 MOSES LAKE 31 68 40 69 44 67 / 0 0 0 10 10 20 WENATCHEE 35 66 44 68 46 64 / 0 0 0 10 10 20 OMAK 28 66 36 65 41 64 / 0 0 0 10 10 20 && .OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...NONE. WA...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 540 AM PDT FRI APR 25 2008 IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>038-041>044-261245- 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- 540 AM PDT FRI APR 25 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO... NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...CENTRAL WASHINGTON...EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:44 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A brief tornado touched down six miles southwest of Kettle Falls.
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