Alert archive / Idaho / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1992, 4:35 PM MDT for 4 counties in Idaho. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1992, 4:35 PM MDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1992, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blaine County, ID, Cassia County, ID, Minidoka County, ID, Power County, ID
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 5:02 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Cassia, ID |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 233 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1078 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:02 PM MDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
IDZ003-004-010-012-142300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 300 PM MDT SUN JUN 14 1992 ...THUNDERSHOWERS IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO... THUNDERSHOWERS ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO AS MOISTURE CIRCULATING AROUND AN UPPER LEVEL IN CENTRAL NEVADA MOVES INTO IDAHO. AN OFF DUTY NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED A THUNDERHOWER IN THE EAST PART OF POCATELLO WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL. THE THUNDERSHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOIP ACROSS SOUTHEAST IDAHO THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WILLk SPREAD NORTH ACROSS MUCH OF THE STATE TONIGHT WITH THE WET AND UNSETTLED WEATHER CONTINUING INTO MONDAY FOR MUCH NEEDED MOISTURE IN DRY AREAS OF THE STATE. KEIRNS
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:08 PM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
IDZ003-004-010-012-142300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 300 PM MDT SUN JUN 14 1992 ...THUNDERSHOWERS IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO... THUNDERSHOWERS ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO AS MOISTURE CIRCULATING AROUND AN UPPER LEVEL LOW IN CENTRAL NEVADA MOVES INTO IDAHO. AN OFF DUTY NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED A THUNDERHOWER IN THE EAST PART OF POCATELLO WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL. THE THUNDERSHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST IDAHO THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WILL SPREAD NORTH ACROSS MUCH OF THE STATE TONIGHT WITH THE WET AND UNSETTLED WEATHER CONTINUING INTO MONDAY FOR MUCH NEEDED MOISTURE IN DRY AREAS OF THE STATE. KEIRNS
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.