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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pocatello, ID

June 2, 1992Bonneville County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1992, 4:57 PM MDT for Bonneville County, Idaho. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1992, 4:57 PM MDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1992, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Whole counties

County Bonneville County, ID

The nearest sounding before it

Lander/Hunt Fiel, WY (KLND), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 245 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, Lander/Hunt Fiel, WY at 12:00Z on 1992-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lander/Hunt Fiel, WY at 12:00Z on 1992-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2370 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBOI 022301 COR
TORPIH
IDC019-022345-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING   ... CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
457 PM MDT TUE JUN 2 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... ...

IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO

   ...BONNEVILLE COUNTY


AT 445 PM MDT A TORNADO WAS SPOTTED 12 MILES NORTH OF IDAHO FALLS.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR C4USHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 5:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHMadison63 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.