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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Pocatello, ID

July 31, 1990Bear Lake County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1990, 6:25 PM MDT for Bear Lake County, Idaho. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 31, 1990, 6:25 PM MDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 1990, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Whole counties

County Bear Lake County, ID

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 1990-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 703 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 1990-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
703 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBannock, Caribou, Franklin35 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.