Alert archive / Idaho / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1998, 4:00 PM MDT for Bingham County, Bonneville County, Idaho. It was in force for 30 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
- May 26, 1998, 4:00 PM MDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1998, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bingham County, ID, Bonneville County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 12:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 281 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 26, 2:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 11:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bingham, Bonneville | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.