Alert archive / Idaho / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1993, 2:19 PM MDT for Clark County, Idaho. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1993, 2:19 PM MDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1993, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, ID
The nearest sounding before it
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 318 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIH 152020 TORPIH IDC033-152115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 219 PM MDT TUE JUN 15 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... ... IN IDAHO ...CLARK COUNTY THE U. S. FOREST SERVICE DISPATCHER IN DUBOIS HAS RECEIVED A REPORT OF TWO TORNADOES ON THE GROUND BETWEEN DUBOIS AND BIRCH CREEK IDAHO-WHICH IS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF DUBOIS. THE TORNADOES APPEARED TO BE TRAVELING TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO REPORTED TO BE OCCURING IN THIS AREA AND WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST OR EAST. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND LARGE HAIL. IF YOU SPOT THESE TORNADOES PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO COLLECT AT 233-0834. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORFNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Clark, Jefferson | 58 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.