Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Pocatello, ID

Issued

Aug 23, 1997, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)

Expired

Aug 23, 1997, 6:30 PM MDT

In force

46 min

Issued by

NWS Pocatello, ID

Area

Whole counties

Counties Fremont County, ID, Madison County, ID

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 135 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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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.

298 
WUUS1 KPIH 232347 RRA
SVRPIH
IDC043-065-240030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
544 PM MDT SAT AUG 23 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
 
   ...SOUTH CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY...WESTERN MADISON COUNTY
 
AT 640 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES EAST
OF REXBURG. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE
ST. ANTHONY AREA BY 615 PM.
 
DAMAGING WIND TO 60 MPH...DIME TO QUARTER-SIZE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY
RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
DDB/JEH

NWS Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 23, 2:12 PM MDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.

EASTERN IDAHO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
210 PM MDT SAT AUG 23 1997

KSFX SHOWS SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY CONFINED TO ZONES 19
AND MOVING QUICKLY NE OUT OF THE STATE.  THE NGM SEEMS TO HAVE BEST
PLACEMENT OF MOISTURE WHILE ETA HAS BETTER PLACEMENT OF SHORTWAVES.
MODELS ARE CONSISTENT DIGGING A JET STREAK DOWN THE BACK SIDE OF A
TROF LOCATED AT AROUND 130W WHICH WILL FORCE A SHORTWAVE CURRENTLY
LOCATED OFF NORTH CA COAST NORTHEAST.  THE END RESULT WILL BE FRONTAL
PASSAGE ACROSS EASTERN ID DURING THE MORNING HOURS WITH THE NGM ABOUT
4 TO 6 HOURS EARLIER THAN THE ETA.  TONIGHT WILL BE A WARM NIGHT AS
SOUTHWEST FLOW INCREASES AHEAD OF FRONT.  SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND LINGER THROUGH MUCH OF
TONIGHT AND INTO THE MORNING HOURS ALONG THE FRONT.  TEMPERATURES
SUNDAY WILL BE ABOUT 8 DEGREES COOLER DUE TO CLOUDS AND LOWER
THICKNESSES ESPECIALLY IN THE AFTERNOON HOURS AS COLD AIR ADVECTION
TAKES HOLD.  SCATTERED MORNING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME
ISOLATED BE AFTERNOON.  SUNDAY NIGHT WILL BE ABOUT 10 DEGREES COOLER
THAN TONIGHT DUE TO LESS WINDS AND CLEARING SKIES.  MONDAY EXPECTED TO
BE DRY AND ABOUT 5 DEGREES WARMER THAN SUNDAY AS MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES
AND SOUTHWEST WINDS RETURN.  JEH

WSR88D KSFX OPERATIONAL...VCP21.

IDA BU 058/082 047/086 050 09331
PIH BU 061/084 049/088 052 09331

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

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.