Alert archive / Idaho / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1996, 3:55 PM MDT for Power County, Idaho. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1996, 3:55 PM MDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1996, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Whole counties
County Power County, ID
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3418 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 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 132158 FFWPIH IDC077-132300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 355 PM MDT THU JUN 13 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO ...SOUTHWESTERN POWER COUNTY INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY OF ROCKLAND... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES IN SOUTHWEST POWER COUNTY INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY OF ROCKLAND. THIS STORM IS NEARLY STATIONARY AND PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. DOPPLER RA RPRECIPITATION SHOWS NEARLY 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE PAST HOUR. TRAVELLERS USING HIGHWAY 37 AND OTHER COUNTY ROADS NEAR ROCKLAND SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR FLASH FLOODING AND POSSIBLE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL. BAUCK
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 13, 2:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
CU VICINITY STATION BUILDING WITHOUT CAP WITH CB DEVELOPMENT IMMINENT. DEWPOINTS REMAINING FAIRLY HIGH SO RISK OF HAIL REMAINING WITH STRONGER CELLS. HELICITY LOW BOISE SOUNDING HOWEVER INCREASES TO MODEST VALUE OVER SALT LAKE. BOTTOM LINE...MOST ACTIVITY SHOULD BE PULSE NATURE WITH ISOLATED SEVERE POSSIBLE DUE MAINLY TO MICROBURST POTENTIAL. SHORTWAVE ENTERING PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST WILL SHEAR NORTHEAST ACROSS PANHANDLE OF IDAHO FRIDAY. COOLER/DRYER SURFACE AIR LIKELY BECOMING HELD UP IN SOUTHCENTRAL IDAHO VICINITY MAGIC AND UPPER SNAKE RIVER VALLEY. CONVECTION A GOOD BET...ESPECIALLY OVER MOUNTAINS AGAIN FRIDAY. HOWEVER...SOME STABILIZATION DUE TO LOW LEVEL DRYING POSSIBLE IN SNAKE RIVER PLAIN BY LATE IN DAY. FLOW BACKS SLIGHTLY OVER WEEKEND ALLOWING WEAK DISTURBANCES TO OCCASIONALLY INTERACT WITH INTERMOUNTAIN MOISTURE. BAUCK PIH BB 055/085 051/087 052 03321 IDA BB 053/084 050/086 051 03221
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:35 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
IDZ004-132130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 234 PM MDT THU JUN 13 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED IN CASSIA COUNTY... AT 230 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN SOUTHCENTRAL CASSIA COUNTY BETWEEN THE COUMMUNITIES OF ELBA AND ALMO. ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS WITH APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AND S TAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. DJB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Power | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Power | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Power | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 4:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Cassia | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Cassia | 50 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Idaho, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.