Alert archive / Idaho / Tornado Warnings in 1995

Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pocatello, ID

June 5, 1995Bingham County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1995, 4:48 PM MDT for Bingham County, Idaho. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1995, 4:48 PM MDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1995, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
42 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, 10.8 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 1995-06-05Temperature 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 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 1995-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1861 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPIH 052249
TORPIH
IDC011-052330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
448 PM MDT MON JUN 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
 
   ...WESTERN BINGHAM COUNTY
 
SHERIFF REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 39 IN BETWEEN
AMERICAN FALLS AND ABERDEEN. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
MPH. RESIDENTS OF ABERDEEN SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
 
CADENHEAD
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 3:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBannock, Bingham, Power67 min
Jun 5, 4:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHFremont, Jefferson, Madison56 min
Jun 5, 5:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHOneida, Power44 min
Jun 5, 5:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBannock, Oneida53 min
Jun 5, 5:25 PM MDTTornado WarningPIHBingham, Bonneville50 min
Jun 5, 5:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHFremont42 min
Jun 5, 5:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBannock, Franklin, Oneida57 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Idaho, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes in 1995

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.