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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pocatello, ID

May 16, 1996Bingham County, Blaine County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1996, 12:06 PM MDT for Bingham County, Blaine County, Idaho. It was in force for 54 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: May 16, 1996, 12:06 PM MDT (18:06 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1996, 1:00 PM MDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bingham County, ID, Blaine County, ID

The nearest sounding before it

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 245 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 866 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 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 161810
SVRPIH
IDC013-011-161900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
1206 PM MDT THU MAY 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL IDAHO
 
   ...EASTERN BLAINE COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
 
   ...WESTERN BINGHAM COUNTY
 
AT 1210 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING
EASTERN BLAINE COUNTY ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF MINIDOKA. THIS THUNDERSTORM
IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES PER HOUR AND SHOULD ENTER WESTERN
BINGHAM COUNTY BY 1 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY
STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 60 MPH...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND
HEAVY RAIN.
 
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING~.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
 
DJB

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 16, 8:47 AM MDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 8:47 AM MDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

UNSTABLE CONDITIONS OVER EASTERN IDAHO TODAY MEANS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAVE BEGUN TO REDEVELOP THIS MORNING WILL CONTINUE
INTO THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG SHORTWAVE IN NORTHERN NEVADA AND UPPER
DIVERGENCE IN THE LEFT EXIT REGION OF JET PROPAGATING NORTHEAST
THROUGH NEVADA AND INTO EASTERN IDAHO. THERE APPEARS TO BE A
WARMFRONTAL TYPE OF FORCING AS WELL WITH SHOWER ACTIVITY THAT PASSED
EAST AND SOUTH OF PIH/IDA OVERNIGHT AND HAS NOW BEGUN TO BUILD BACK
TO THE NORTH IN ADVANCE OF PREVIOSLY MENTIONED SHORTWAVE. WARM SECTOR
OVER UTAH WITH SALT LAKE IN THE 70S. PRESENT ZONES AND NOW COVER
THINGS WELL ENOUGH. NO MODEL DATA SO WILL LOOK AT LATER PERIODS IN
THE AFTERNOON AFD. DJB

PIH WE 065/048 065/047 067 06864
IDA WE 064/048 063/045 065 06864

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 11:37 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PIH	Blaine	3 hr
May 16, 11:55 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PIH	Power	50 min
May 16, 12:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PIH	Bannock	38 min
May 16, 12:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PIH	Caribou	37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm 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.