A tornado briefly touched down near the Lewis and Clearwater county line south of Craigmont. Local law enforcement relayed a message of a tornado witnessed by the public just south of New Hope Road near Lawyer Canyon.
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A tornado briefly touched down near the Lewis and Clearwater county line south of Craigmont. Local law enforcement relayed a message of a tornado witnessed by the public just south of New Hope Road near Lawyer Canyon. No damage was observed from the tornado.
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 Oct 7, 1:36 PM PST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 236 PM PDT THU OCT 7 2010 .SYNOPSIS... STEADY BUT DECREASING RAIN RATES WILL BE AN ISSUE INTO EARLY EVENING ACROSS FAR EASTERN WASHINGTON AND THE ID PANHANDLE. OTHERWISE...LINGERING SHOWERS WILL PERSIST OVER THE IDAHO PANHANDLE THROUGH TONIGHT... WITH ESSENTIALLY DRY BUT CLOUDY CONDITIONS ELSEWHERE. THE WEATHER PATTERN IS SETTING UP TO BE VERY WET AND ACTIVE BEGINNING FRIDAY NIGHT AND LASTING THROUGH EARLY MONDAY AS A MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW SET UP OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. THEN HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD BACK INTO THE REGION NEXT WEEK FOR A DRYING TREND. && .DISCUSSION... TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...BAROCLINIC BAND SPIRALING OUTWARD ALONG THE PERIPHERY OF A CLOSED LOW EMBEDDED UNDER THE LARGE LONGWAVE RIDGE INFLUENCING THE WESTERN US WILL SLOWLY DRIFT TO THE NORTH AND EAST INTO EASTERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN IDAHO BEFORE EXITING FRIDAY NIGHT. THEREFORE THE FORECAST HAS BEEN STRUCTURED TO SHOW HIGH POPS AND PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS THAT SPREAD UP FROM THE SOUTH AND EXIT TO THE NORTH AND EAST AS SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCES GROW AND EBB IN THE DESCRIBED BAROCLINIC BANDS. BRIEF INTERVAL OF SHORTWAVE RIDGING SHORTLY AFTER RECEIVING SIGNIFICANT MOISTURE COULD ALLOW THE RETURN OF FOG AND/OR STRATUS FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING BEFORE A WET FRONT WITH A WELL ESTABLISHED SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE TAP MAKES A PASS THROUGH EASTERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN IDAHO SATURDAY. FORECAST TEMPERATURES SHOW A COOLING TREND BASED ON EITHER THE LOSS OF RIDGING OR INEFFICIENT MIXING AT THE SURFACE WHEN RIDING TAKES PLACE IN ADDITION TO COOLING BROUGHT ABOUT BY PRECIPITATION OCCURRENCE. /PELATTI SAT NT THROUGH MON...RAINFALL AMNTS WILL BE THE MAIN ISSUE WELL INTO SUNDAY AS THE INBOUND WARMFNT SAT NT PRODUCES WIDESPREAD STRATIFORM RAINS...FOLLOWED BY COLD FROPA SUNDAY. ALL GUIDANCE SHOWS SIMILAR TIMING WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE SUNDAY AFTERNOON...WITH THE POST FRONTAL DRY SLOT AND SURGE OF 850 MB WINDS AROUND 35KTS PRODUCING GUSTY WEST WINDS UNDER CLEARING SKIES AND CAA LATE SUNDAY. A WIND ADVSY IS NOT EXPECTED ATTM. FOR PCPN AMNTS...NATIONAL AND LOCAL GUIDANCE IS STILL PRODUCING RAIN AMNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES NEAR THE CREST OF THE CASCADES SAT THROUGH SUN NT...RAPIDLY TAPERING TO ONE TO TWO TENTHS IN THE PARTIALLY- SHADOWED COLUMBIA BASIN. THE OTHER REGION BESIDES THE CASCADES THAT WILL SEE THE MOST RAIN WILL BE NE WA AND THE N ID PANHANDLE MTNS WHERE 1 TO 1.5 INCHES IS EXPECTED AT THE HIGHEST PEAKS. SNOW LEVELS WILL ONLY FALL TO AROUND 5K FT SUNDAY NT AND MON...WELL AFTER THE HEAVIEST PCPN THREAT WITH THE COLD FRONT IS OVER. HYDRO CONCERNS: FOR THE CASCADES...RISES IN STREAMS IS A CERTAINTY...ESPECIALLY CLOSER THE CREST WHERE THE STEHEKIN RIVER WILL BE CLOSE TO FLOOD STAGE BY SUNDAY EVENING. MUDSLIDES WILL BE POSSIBLE ON STEEP AND SPARSELY VEGETATED SLOPES IN THE CASCADES. FLOOD WATCHES OR ADVISORIES MAY BE ISSUES AS EARLY AS FRIDAY. BZ MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...NICE WEATHER SHOULD RETURN TO THE REGION AFTER A WET WEEKEND. MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT THAT ANOTHER BROAD HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE WILL BUILD IN OVER THE WESTERN US AFTER THIS WEEKEND'S WEATHER SYSTEM MOVES OUT. EXPECT A WARMING/DRYING TREND THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF THE WEEK WITH HIGHS TOPPING OUT AT AROUND 5 DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE FOR MOST AREAS BY WEDNESDAY. SFC WINDS WILL BE WEAK AND CLOUD COVER WILL BE MINIMAL UNDER THE RIDGE...SO PATCHY FOG WILL BE AN ISSUE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST AND PANHANDLE VLYS. BY THURSDAY...WE START TO SEE THE RIDGE TRANSLATE EASTWARD CENTERING ITSELF OVER THE ROCKIES. A STRONG JET STREAK OF 160+ KTS INTO SOUTHERN BC WILL DIG AND AMPLIFY THE NEXT APPROACHING TROUGH. THE ECMWF MODEL HAS COME MUCH MORE IN LINE WITH THE GFS...SHOWING A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THIS FRONT LOOKS TO BE FAIRLY DRY WITH BOTH MODELS ONLY SHOWING A VERY NARROW BAND OF MOISTURE MOVING THROUGH. ALTHOUGH THIS FRONT DOESN'T LOOK PARTICULARLY WET...IT COULD BE A BIT BREEZY WITH GUSTS 20+ MPH POSSIBLE. /SVH && .AVIATION... A BROAD LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE GREAT BASIN WILL CHANNEL DEEP MOISTURE UP INTO THE IDAHO PANHANDLE AND EXTREME EASTERN WASHINGTON TODAY BRINGING A THREAT OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF A LINE FROM KCQV TO KALW. THE BEST CHANCE FOR A THUNDERSTORM WILL BE AT KLWS AND KPUW...WITH OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AT KGEG...KSFF AND KCOE. THE MOUNTAINS OF THE IDAHO PANHANDLE WILL BEAR THE BRUNT OF SHOWER ACTIVITY WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT WITH LOCAL TERRAIN OBSCURATIONS POSSIBLE. ALL TAF SITES WILL BE VFR OUTSIDE OF THUNDERSTORM CORES. WEST OF THIS LINE VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH 12Z FRIDAY...BUT WITH OCCASIONAL MID LEVEL AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUD DECKS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SPOKANE 48 63 48 60 51 61 / 80 10 20 60 70 90 COEUR D'ALENE 50 63 45 57 50 60 / 80 10 10 60 60 100 PULLMAN 47 63 49 62 53 61 / 80 20 10 40 50 90 LEWISTON 53 73 53 68 55 68 / 60 20 10 20 10 70 COLVILLE 45 65 46 61 52 65 / 10 10 20 80 90 100 SANDPOINT 46 62 43 54 49 56 / 70 20 10 60 60 100 KELLOGG 49 61 43 55 49 56 / 80 60 10 50 50 90 MOSES LAKE 46 70 51 67 55 67 / 60 10 30 60 50 60 WENATCHEE 49 68 51 67 54 64 / 10 10 50 60 60 60 OMAK 45 69 48 67 52 66 / 0 10 50 70 80 70 && .OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...NONE. WA...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 355 PM PDT THU OCT 7 2010 IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>038-041-043-044-082300- NORTHERN PANHANDLE-COEUR D'ALENE 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- OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- 355 PM PDT THU OCT 7 2010 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...THIS AFTERNOON 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. WAZ042-082300- EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES- 355 PM PDT THU OCT 7 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A PAIR OF VERY MOIST PACIFIC STORM SYSTEMS WITH HIGH SNOW LEVELS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BRING 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL TO THE HIGH CASCADES ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. IF THIS OCCURS... LOCAL RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL EXPERIENCE SHARP RISES LATER THIS WEEKEND. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF MUDSLIDES ON STEEP AND SPARSELY VEGETATED SLOPES NEAR THE CASCADE CREST. THE LATEST FORECAST FOR THE STEHEKIN RIVER HAS IT CRESTING ABOUT ONE FOOT BELOW FLOOD STAGE LATE SUNDAY.
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 192 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:41 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado was spotted for a brief period by the public just south of New Hope Road near Lawyer Canyon approximately six miles southeast of Craigmont. The tornado then moved into Idaho County (see Storm Data for Idaho).
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