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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Pocatello, ID

July 10, 1995Bingham County, Power County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1995, 4:12 PM MDT for Bingham County, Power County, Idaho. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1995, 4:12 PM MDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1995, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bingham County, ID, Power County, ID

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 249 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-387 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3361 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 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 KPIH 102214 RRA
SVRPIH
IDC011-077-102315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
412 PM MDT MON JUL 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
 
...WESTERN BINGHAM COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN POWER COUNTY
 
AT 410 PM MDT..A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY RADAR
FROM JUST WEST OF AMERICAN FALLS TO NEAR MINIDOKA. THE STORMS WERE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING
THROUGH WEST BINGHAM COUNTY AND NORTHWEST POWER COUNTY DURING THE
NEXT HOUR.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE$ OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 2:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHPower49 min
Jul 10, 4:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBonneville, Fremont, Jefferson, Madison65 min
Jul 10, 4:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHButte55 min
Jul 10, 5:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBingham, Bonneville52 min
Jul 10, 5:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHJefferson52 min
Jul 10, 5:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHClark, Fremont69 min

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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.