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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Pocatello, ID

August 10, 1997Oneida County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1997, 6:49 PM MDT for Oneida County, Idaho. It was in force for 41 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
Aug 10, 1997, 6:49 PM MDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1997, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Whole counties

County Oneida County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 00:00Z on 1997-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1020 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1997-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 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
1020 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2105 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

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 Aug 10, 3:23 PM MDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 3:23 PM MDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 6:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHCassia, Oneida41 min
Aug 11, 3:20 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPIHBannock70 min
Aug 11, 3:48 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPIHPower57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.