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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pocatello, ID

April 25, 1995Bannock County, Bingham County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 1995, 1:16 PM MDT for Bannock County, Bingham County, Idaho. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 25, 1995, 1:16 PM MDT (19:16 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 1995, 2:15 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bannock County, ID, Bingham County, ID

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 243 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 1995-04-25Temperature 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 1995-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2758 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 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 251917 RRA
TORPIH
IDC005-011-252015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
116 PM MDT TUE APR 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
 
   ...BANNOCK COUNTY...BINGHAM COUNTY
 
AT 100 PM MDT...A STORM SPOTTER IN BLACKFOOT REPORTED A TORNADO.
 
THIS TORNADO WAS PART OF AN AREA OF LSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE
MOVING THROUGH BANNOCK AND BINGHAM COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
 
PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 2:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBannock, Bingham9 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.