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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pocatello, ID

May 29, 1996Caribou County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 5:45 PM MDT for Caribou County, Idaho. It was in force for 60 min. 2 reports 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
May 29, 1996, 5:45 PM MDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1996, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Whole counties

County Caribou County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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
May 29, 5:45 PM MDTHail 0.75Soda Spgs, ID
May 29, 5:45 PM MDTHail 0.75Soda Spgs, 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 1996-05-29Temperature 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 1996-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2360 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
89 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
May 29, 12:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBingham51 min
May 29, 1:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBonneville, Jefferson44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.