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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Pocatello, ID

June 13, 1996Power County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 3:24 PM MDT for Power County, Idaho. It was in force for 51 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, 3:24 PM MDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1996, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Whole counties

County Power County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 1996-06-13Temperature 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 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPIH 132125
SVRPIH
IDC077-132215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
324 PM MDT THU JUN 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM MDT
...
 
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
 
   ...EASTERN POWER COUNTY
 
AT 322 PM MDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13
MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY OF POCATELLO. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT
ABOUT 10 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SfHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 3:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHPower35 min
Jun 13, 3:55 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPIHPower65 min
Jun 13, 3:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHPower65 min
Jun 13, 4:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHCassia42 min
Jun 13, 4:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHCassia50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 1996Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.