Nickel size hail fell from a strong thunderstorm eight miles southeast of Northport.
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Nickel size hail fell from a strong thunderstorm eight miles southeast of Northport.
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 Jul 23, 8:03 PM PST, 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
903 PM PDT THU JUL 23 2009
.SYNOPSIS...
AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE WILL SLOWLY CROSS THE REGION TONIGHT
AND FRIDAY WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ESPECIALLY NORTH OF THE
COLUMBIA BASIN. LINGERING BUT DECREASING THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY. A HOT UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL REBOUND
BY SUNDAY WITH VERY HOT AND DRY WEATHER RETURNING NEXT WEEK.
&&
.DISCUSSION...
REST OF TONIGHT...FORECAST UPDATE SENT TO ADJUST PRECIPITATION
COVERAGE AND CLOUD COVER AGAIN BASED ON RADAR/SATELLITE
TRENDS...AND NEWEST MODELS.
THE UPPER LOW IS NOW MOVING ACROSS THE CASCADES. THE CENTER IS
STILL ON TRACK TO MOVE TOWARD NE WA...JUST WEST OF COLVILLE BY
FRIDAY. MORNING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE
OVER THE FAR NORTHEAST CASCADES TO NORTHEAST PEND OREILLE COUNTY.
WITH THE UPPER LOW TRACK EAST TONIGHT THERE STILL REMAINS A
RISK FOR ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS NORTH OF I-90
THROUGH THE NIGHT.
SOME ACCUS WAS ALSO NOTED NEAR THE L-C VALLEY HEADING TOWARD THE
NORTHEAST. HOWEVER NEWEST GUIDANCE IS SHOWING LESS ELEVATED
INSTABILITY HERE OVERNIGHT IN GENERAL. SO PRECIPITATION CHANCES
WERE REDUCED TO ISOLATED OVER THE CENTRAL PANHANDLE.
MINOR ADJUSTMENTS MADE TO WINDS AND OVERNIGHT LOWS. OVERNIGHT LOWS
ARE EXPECTED TO BE SLIGHTLY COOLER TONIGHT...AS COMPARED TO LAST
NIGHT. /JCOTE
&&
.AVIATION...
AN UPPER LOW CENTER WILL ENTER THE REGION AND STALL OVER THE
ERN WASHINGTON DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. THIS DISTURBANCE WILL
PROMOTE SCT THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AND AGAIN AFTER 18Z
FRIDAY...MAINLY OF I-90. DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND EARLY
MORNING THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE ISOLD...BUT STILL PRESENT
OVER THE MTNS NORTH OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN. TAF SITES MOST LIKELY
TO BE IMPACTED BY THESE SCT AFTERNOON/EVENING STORMS WILL BE
KGEG/KSFF/KCOE...WITH SMALLER BUT STILL DISCERNIBLE RISK AT KEAT
AND KPUW. /FUGAZZI.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SPOKANE 60 87 62 88 64 95 / 20 30 30 20 20 10
COEUR DALENE 55 87 58 89 61 94 / 20 30 30 20 20 20
PULLMAN 52 87 56 86 57 93 / 10 20 20 20 20 10
LEWISTON 63 94 65 95 67 99 / 10 10 10 10 10 10
COLVILLE 56 88 56 92 59 98 / 30 40 40 30 20 20
SANDPOINT 50 86 55 91 55 91 / 20 40 30 20 20 20
KELLOGG 62 86 59 87 60 90 / 20 30 30 20 20 20
MOSES LAKE 62 88 62 96 66 99 / 10 0 0 0 0 0
WENATCHEE 68 90 68 97 70 101 / 10 10 10 10 10 0
OMAK 59 90 62 96 64 103 / 50 20 20 10 10 0
&&
.OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
ID...RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 5 AM PDT FRIDAY FOR CENTRAL PANHANDLE
MOUNTAINS...COEUR DALENE AREA...IDAHO PALOUSE...NORTHERN
PANHANDLE.
WA...RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 5 AM PDT FRIDAY FOR NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS...
OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS...SPOKANE AREA...UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN...
WASHINGTON PALOUSE...WATERVILLE PLATEAU.
RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR EAST SLOPES
NORTHERN CASCADES...OKANOGAN VALLEY.
&&HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 630 AM PDT THU JUL 23 2009 IDZ001-002-004-WAZ036>038-041>044-241330- NORTHERN PANHANDLE-COEUR DALENE AREA-CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS- SPOKANE AREA-NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS-OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS- WENATCHEE AREA-EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES-OKANOGAN VALLEY- WATERVILLE PLATEAU- 630 AM PDT THU JUL 23 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO... CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND NORTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STRONG AND COMPACT UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESULTING IN SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN WASHINGTON AND THE NORTHERN IDAHO PANHANDLE TODAY AND THIS EVENING. THE INCOMING TROUGH WILL GENERATE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY ERRATIC WINDS...AND HAIL. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS...AND TO A LESSER EXTENT...LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NEUMAN IDZ003-026-027-WAZ031>035-241330- IDAHO PALOUSE-LEWISTON AREA-LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES- NORTHEAST BLUE MOUNTAINS-LOWER GARFIELD AND ASOTIN COUNTIES- WASHINGTON PALOUSE-MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN- 630 AM PDT THU JUL 23 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO... NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NEUMAN
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 130 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:04 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
In addition to the nickel size hail, 0.48 inches of rain also fell in 27 minutes.
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