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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Pocatello, ID

August 14, 1996Lincoln County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1996, 6:04 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Idaho. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 14, 1996, 6:04 PM MDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 1996, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 14, 6:30 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 52Shoshone, ID

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 237 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, Elko, NV at 00:00Z on 1996-08-15Temperature 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, Elko, NV at 00:00Z on 1996-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 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
2949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 6:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHClark, Jefferson40 min
Aug 14, 6:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHMinidoka40 min
Aug 14, 6:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBlaine, Power42 min
Aug 14, 7:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBingham48 min
Aug 14, 7:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBingham, Bonneville49 min
Aug 14, 7:59 PM MDTTornado WarningPIHBlaine, Minidoka16 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.