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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Pocatello, ID

July 29, 1995Bingham County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1995, 4:08 PM MDT for Bingham County, Idaho. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1995, 4:08 PM MDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1995, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Whole counties

County Bingham County, ID

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 274 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 1995-07-29Temperature 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 1995-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
-669 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3305 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 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 292211 RRA
SVRPIH
IDC011-292300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
408 PM MDT SAT JUL 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN BINGHAM COUNTY
 
AT 405 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
ENTERING THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BINGHAM COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL EFFECT THE TOWN OF ABERDEEN SHORTLY.
 
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE
TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
 
END/BAUCK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 10:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHLemhi30 min
Jul 29, 2:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBingham22 min
Jul 29, 2:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBonneville57 min
Jul 29, 2:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHFremont, Madison52 min
Jul 29, 3:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHPower25 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.