Thunderstorm Wind in Latah County, Idaho

Thunderstorm Wind July 23, 2014 · Latah County, Idaho

64 mph

Estimated gust (56 kt)

$2K

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A spruce and locus tree were destroyed around a farm house. Two roofs on farm buildings lost tin. Tree limbs four inches in diameter were broken off into four foot chunks and flew 100 feet. Fifty to sixty foot spruce trees with six inch diameter trunks had twenty feet of their tops taken off.

The wider storm

A deep trough of low pressure dropped down the Washington Coastline then swung inland into the Inland Northwest during the afternoon of July 23rd. The wave took on a strong negative tilt and moved into a moist and very unstable air mass. The outcome was a widespread severe weather event for Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho producing large hail, flash flooding, and widespread wind damage. Falling trees led to some injuries in Eastern Washington.

Began near Kennedy Ford (46.9410, -117.0387).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 532248. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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