Alert archive / Idaho / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1996, 7:50 PM MDT for Jefferson County, Idaho. It was in force for 40 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 14, 1996, 7:50 PM MDT (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1996, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 314 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
- 467 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIH 150152 TORPIH IDC051-150230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 750 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO ...SOUTH CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 747 PM MDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROBERTS. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 14, 2:16 PM MDT, 5 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:16 PM MDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
LOW PRESSURE TROUGH CONTINUES OVER GULF OF ALASKA WITH SHORT WAVES ROTATING INTO PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. AIRMASS OVER EAST IDAHO TODAY NOT VERY DIFFERENT FROM THURSDAY...VERY WARM SURFACE TEMPERATURES...MID LEVEL MOISTURE PRESENT...SOUNDING AT LKN AND SLC FAVORING INVERTED-V TYPE. RADAR AND SATELLITE SHOW THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY DEVELOPING ZONE 4/12. MAINLY DRY THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING. VILS NEAR MONTANA BORDER APPROACHING 45 DBZ...SOME HAIL POSSIBLE. DIFFERENCE IS ORIENTATION OF THERMAL TROUGH FROM NEVADA INTO WYOMING AND UPPER DIVERGENCE. BELIEVE BEST DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ZONE 4/12 THIS EVENING...A FEW MOVING NORTH INTO SOUTHERN BANNOCK/POWER COUNTY THIS EVENING. SATURDAY MODELS INDICATE STRONGER THETA-E RIDGING FROM MT/WY EXTENDING WEST INTO IDAHO. SHORT WAVE ALSO MOVING INTO EAST AND THERMAL TROUGH SHIFTING ORIENTATION BACK INTO SOUTHERN IDAHO/WESTERN MONTANA FOR STRONGER THUNDERSTORM DAY. WILL KEEP DAYTIME TEMPERATURES FAIRLY CLOSE TO GUIDANCE AND OVERNIGHT LOWS SLIGHTLY COOLER PER CURRENT TRENDS. TROUGH SHARPENS ALONG 130W SUNDAY BRINGING HEIGHTS/THICKNESS DOWN A LITTLE AS IT INCHES INTO COAST. WARM UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO CONTINUE WITH AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. RS PIH BB 051/085 050/083 049 08222 IDA BB 050/051 049/051 047 08222
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:15 PM MDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
IDZ012-142100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 210 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY IN UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS... AT 200 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AND SATELLITE INDICATE SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND INTENSIFYING IN SOUTHERN CUSTER COUNTY NORTH OF MACKAY NORTHEASTWARD TO SPENCER AND ISLAND PARK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. TRAVELLERS ALONG HIGHWAY 20.. HIGHWAY 22.. HIGHWAY 33.. AND INTERSTATE 15 SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS OF POSSIBLE REDUCED VISIBILITY DUE TO BLOWING DUST CAUSED BY DOWNBURSTS FROM THESE STORMS. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.. SMALL HAIL.. AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM| THESE STORMS. END/GOENS
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:10 PM MDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
IDZ02-142200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 300 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN CASSSIA COUNTY... AT 300 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AND SATELLITE INDICATE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND INTENSIFYING IN SOUTHERN CASSIA COUNTY FROM SOUTHWEST OF OAKLEY TO ALMO. THESE STORMS HAVE SHOWN RAPID DEVELOPMENT IN THE LAST 30 MINUTES AND ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. TRAVELLERS AND OTHERS IN SOUTHERN CASSIA COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE REDUCED VISIBILITY DUE TO BLOWING DUST CAUSED BY DOWNBURSTS AND GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.. SMALL HAIL.. AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM THESE STO RMS. END/GOENS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Cassia, Minidoka | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bingham | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.