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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Pocatello, ID

June 25, 1998Lincoln County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1998, 4:19 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Idaho. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report 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
Jun 25, 1998, 4:19 PM MDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1998, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, ID

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 25, 4:38 PM MDTHail 1.25Shoshone, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 25, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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, Boise Airport, ID at 12:00Z on 1998-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 149 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Boise Airport, ID at 12:00Z on 1998-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 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
149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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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
Jun 25, 4:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHCassia48 min
Jun 25, 4:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHCassia47 min
Jun 25, 4:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHLincoln47 min
Jun 25, 5:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBlaine, Minidoka43 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.