Significant rainfall resulted in damage to cherry crops across several orchards in Grant, Chelan, and Spokane counties. It was reported that up to approximately fifteen to twenty five percent of the cherry orchards were damaged.
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The episode as NWS OTX wrote it up.
Significant rainfall resulted in damage to cherry crops across several orchards in Grant, Chelan, and Spokane counties. It was reported that up to approximately fifteen to twenty five percent of the cherry orchards were damaged. The Bing variety of cherries was hardest hit due to severe cracking of fruit. CocoRahs observers across the area reported between 0.25 and 0.50 inches of rainfall. One helicopter pilot was injured when the low-flying aircraft clipped bird netting and crashed in southern Grant County.
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 23, 8:26 PM PST, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 926 PM PDT Sun Jun 23 2013 .SYNOPSIS... A wetter pattern will envelope the Inland Northwest tonight and persist through mid week. Frequent showers and scattered thunderstorms will continue through Wednesday. A warming and drying trend will occur late in the week...with the potential summer-like conditions by next weekend. && .DISCUSSION... One of many weather waves to come from the Pacific Northwest is moving it's way into eastern Washington tonight. Radar showed best reflectivity in northeast Oregon and now the southern part of east Washington as of 900 PM PDT. Radar also showed some convectively enhanced showers in Oregon but now have started to stratify as the sun sets. So, we are looking at a fairly benign but wet wave of showers to move into east Washington overnight but there is still some potential to produce rain amounts around one quarter of an inch in the most intense shower areas as the wave moves through. Areas of heaviest shower activity will start east of the Cascades and gradually move east into the Idaho Panhandle by early Monday morning. More shower activity can be expected Monday as the upper level low sends another wave our way. This wet wave pattern kooks to be the trend at least into the middle of this week. TC && .AVIATION... 00Z TAFS: VFR conditions are expected this evening through 03Z with a few light rain showers. After 00Z conditions will deteriorate region wide as a negatively tilted trough interacts with deep moisture over the region to produce thickening and lowering ceilings with widespread rain between 04Z and 15Z as the area of moisture moves from southwest to northeast through the interior Pacific Northwest. Expect MVFR ceilings at most TAF sites at times with improving conditions most sites after 18Z Monday. TC .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Spokane 55 67 53 66 52 70 / 100 70 60 50 50 20 Coeur d'Alene 55 66 55 66 52 70 / 80 80 70 60 50 20 Pullman 52 66 52 66 51 70 / 80 70 60 60 50 20 Lewiston 59 71 57 74 57 79 / 80 70 60 60 60 30 Colville 54 71 54 70 51 74 / 80 100 60 60 60 20 Sandpoint 53 66 54 67 51 70 / 60 100 70 60 50 30 Kellogg 53 63 52 63 51 68 / 70 80 70 60 50 30 Moses Lake 58 74 58 69 56 77 / 80 50 30 40 20 10 Wenatchee 60 74 57 69 57 76 / 80 50 30 30 20 20 Omak 58 73 56 70 53 76 / 100 70 50 40 30 20 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Spokane 55 67 53 66 52 70 / 100 70 60 50 50 20 Coeur d'Alene 55 66 55 66 52 70 / 80 80 70 60 50 20 Pullman 52 66 52 66 51 70 / 70 70 60 60 50 20 Lewiston 59 71 57 74 57 79 / 60 70 60 60 60 30 Colville 54 71 54 70 51 74 / 80 100 60 60 60 20 Sandpoint 53 66 54 67 51 70 / 60 100 70 60 50 30 Kellogg 53 63 52 63 51 68 / 70 80 70 60 50 30 Moses Lake 58 74 58 69 56 77 / 80 50 30 40 20 10 Wenatchee 60 74 57 69 57 76 / 80 50 30 30 20 20 Omak 58 73 56 70 53 76 / 100 70 50 40 30 20 && .OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...None. WA...None. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 537 AM PDT SUN JUN 23 2013 IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>038-041>044-241400- 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- EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES-OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- 537 AM PDT SUN JUN 23 2013 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...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Moderate to locally heavy rain of 0.25 to 0.50 inches resulted in cherry damage in the GreenBluff area outside Spokane.
Moderate to locally heavy rain of 0.25 to 0.50 inches resulted in cherry damage across portions of Chelan County.
Moderate to locally heavy rain of 0.25 to 0.50 inches resulted in cherry damage across portions of southern Grant County.
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