The Kettle River near Ferry flooded multiple times during the month of May through early June. Bottom lands, fields and roads along the river were flooded during the peak periods but little or no damage to structures was noted.
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The Kettle River near Ferry flooded multiple times during the month of May through early June. Bottom lands, fields and roads along the river were flooded during the peak periods but little or no damage to structures was noted. The river continued to run near or slightly above Flood Stage into the month of June.
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 1, 4:09 PM PST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Spokane WA 509 PM PDT Thu Jun 1 2017 .SYNOPSIS... A return to more seasonal temperatures into the weekend will allow the rivers in north central Washington to slowly recede. Scattered showers will taper off this evening. High pressure should bring drier weather for Friday and Saturday. Cooler and occasionally showery weather is forecast as early as Saturday night and on through Sunday and into Monday. More dry and warm weather possible by middle of next week. && .DISCUSSION... Today and tonight: The upper trough continues to bring us showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and these will continue into the early evening, tapering off from west to east. The frontal band has moved east the next shortwave is moving through the area from the southwest. This is bringing with it a few vorticity maxima and providing lift, along with some upslope flow, to initiate the showers this afternoon. Central and eastern Washington saw a good deal of sun this afternoon which, together with the upper level cooling of the trough have increased our instability over the basin allowing for a few lightning strikes. The best threat for thunderstorms the rest of the afternoon is over the northeast mountain zones, where CAPE values max out >600 J/kg. Convection will decrease from west to east as through the evening. As the shortwave moves out we'll see a clearing trend through the night. Moisture will linger in the boundary layer overnight, however, so some patchy fog is possible Friday morning, mainly northern and Cascade valleys. /bw Friday and Saturday: The shortwave from today will have exited into Montana by tomorrow with shortwave ridging building in behind it. Boundary layer moisture will remain high enough over the northeast valleys to allow for some fog potential Friday morning but overall a clearing and drying trend will ensue into Saturday. By Saturday evening, PWATs begin to rise back to near 1 inch as the flow turns to the southwest ahead of a deep trough off the coast. There is enough instability and some upslope flow over the central ID Panhandle Saturday evening to warrant a slight chance mention at an isolated shower or thunderstorm with a better chance overnight. Mid to high level clouds will also be on the increase Saturday. Saturday night through Monday night: A vort max will ride up from the southwest Saturday night which will allow for some shower chances over the eastern third of WA and the ID Panhandle for Saturday night into early Sunday morning. The incoming shortwave and associated cold front will reinforce the shower and thunderstorm chances for Sunday afternoon and evening, again, mainly over the eastern half of our forecast area. The best instability looks to set up over the ID Panhandle and even more-so in to MT supporting the inherited thunderstorm chances. Given the alignment of CAPE values and 0-6 km deep layer shear, the potential is there for some small hail and gusty winds with these storms over our eastern counties, with locally heavy rain more likely. Models are hinting at the possibility of some decent rainfall amounts over the central ID Panhandle but will need to continue to be refined as we get closer. This system exits overnight Sunday with some ridging and therefore a drying trend building in again for Monday. Temperatures still look to be within a few degrees either side of normal for this time of year, generally in the upper 60s and 70s. The exception to this still looks to be on Saturday which will feature high temperatures in the 80s for many locations. /Kalin Tuesday through Thursday...Amplifying ridging allows for a warming and drying trend Tuesday through Wednesday night. The ridge axis gets pushed into Western Montana Wednesday night so there is a bit more warm air advection on the west side of the ridge axis but the flow remains void of disturbances that could kick off convection so the forecast remains dry. There is some model agreement in allowing a very slow moving negatively tilted frontal zone into Central and Eastern Washington that would affect portions of the North Idaho Panhandle Thursday night. This setup would allow the warming trend to peak Wednesday with the most significant cooling occurring over the Washington Cascades Thursday coupled with pops for showers and possibly thunderstorms while further east over North Idaho Thursday may end up nearly as warm as Wednesday due to the slow arrival of the front there. /Pelatti && .AVIATION... 06Z TAFS: An upper level shortwave trough of lower pressure is pushing across the region late this afternoon. The axis of this wave is currently pushing east of the northern Cascade Mtns at 00Z with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms developing ahead of this wave, mainly across extreme eastern WA and into the ID Panhandle with KCOE, KPUW and KLWS seeing the best potential for convection into the early evening. Skies will clear out overnight with patchy fog possible in the northeast mtn valleys of WA and the mtn valleys in the ID Panhandle. These low clouds may develop into KCOE and KSFF for the early morning hours Friday. /SVH && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Spokane 50 72 52 81 56 72 / 40 0 0 0 20 40 Coeur d'Alene 49 72 49 81 53 73 / 50 0 0 0 20 40 Pullman 47 71 51 78 54 69 / 20 0 0 0 40 40 Lewiston 52 79 53 85 57 76 / 40 0 0 10 30 40 Colville 48 75 48 81 54 75 / 30 10 0 10 20 40 Sandpoint 48 71 44 80 51 73 / 60 10 0 10 20 40 Kellogg 46 69 46 83 51 73 / 50 10 0 10 30 50 Moses Lake 51 80 51 85 55 78 / 0 0 0 0 10 30 Wenatchee 53 77 54 80 53 76 / 10 0 0 0 10 10 Omak 48 76 51 81 53 78 / 10 0 0 10 10 10 && .OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...None. WA...None. &&
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Spokane WA 610 AM PDT Thu Jun 1 2017 IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>038-041>044-021315- 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- 610 AM PDT Thu Jun 1 2017 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...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY No hazardous weather is expected at this time.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
543 PM PDT THU JUN 1 2017
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0334 PM HEAVY RAIN 1 SSW HAYDEN 47.74N 116.80W
06/01/2017 E0.25 INCH KOOTENAI ID TRAINED SPOTTER
RAIN WAS CHARACTERIZED AS BEING VERY VERY
HEAVY. RAINFALL AMOUNT WAS ESTIMATED TO
BETWEEN A QUARTER AND A HALF AN INCH. THE
DURATION OF THE HEAVY RAIN EVENT WAS 15
MINUTES.
&&The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Kettle River Gage at Ferry recorded a rise above the Flood Stage of 18.5 feet at 5:15 PM PST on June 1st. The river crested at 19.0 feet at 7:00 PM June 2nd then dropped back below Flood Stage at 1:45 AM on June 3rd.
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