Alert archive / Idaho / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 14, 2000, 3:26 PM MST for Bannock County, Bingham County, Power County, Idaho. It was in force for 49 min. 9 reports 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
- Feb 14, 2000, 3:26 PM MST (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2000, 4:15 PM MST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bannock County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Power County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 3:30 PM MST | Thunderstorm Wind 74.4 M | Countywide, ID | Bingham county sustained by far the most damage from both the straight line wind and the tornadoes. Wind along I-15 near Blackfoot flipped 3 tractor trailers (1 injury) and forced a Greyhound bus (1 injury) into the median. Poles for electric lines were down |
| Feb 14, 3:40 PM MST | Tornado F0 | American Falls, ID | A large metal farm building was damaged 6W of Pocatello airport: siding pushed in and roof partially removed. Nearby, a cinder block and a steel framed potato storage buildings collapsed. A large grain silo sustained severe damage. A recreation fee buildi |
| Feb 14, 3:47 PM MST | Tornado F1 | Pingree, ID | In the Riverside vicinity, one mobile home and two attached garages were destroyed. Near Pingree a set of grain silos were caved in. A cinder block building collapsed and a barn was destroyed near Groveland. In East Moreland 8 RVs were flipped and several d |
| Feb 14, 3:55 PM MST | Tornado F0 | Chubbuck, ID | A few homes were damaged along with several trees and a main line electrical pole downed in Chubbuck. Several wheel irrigation systems were twisted and damaged. |
| Feb 14, 3:55 PM MST | Thunderstorm Wind 51.2 M | Mc Cammon, ID | Widespread minor damage to houses and fences, along with downed trees, were reported in Chubbuck. |
| Feb 14, 4:06 PM MST | Hail 1 E | Chubbuck, ID | Numerous reports of hail from .75 to 1.00 inches in size. In Inkom, hail of 1.00 inches was reported to a depth of 6 inches. |
| Feb 14, 4:15 PM MST | Hail 1 E | Arbon, ID | Hail damage occurred to several vehicles. |
| Feb 14, 4:15 PM MST | Tornado F1 | Shelley, ID | |
| Feb 14, 4:19 PM MST | Tornado F1 | Firth, ID | Near Taylorsville a mobile home and garage were destroyed, 3 houses sustained minor roof damage and a cinder block building collapsed. Along the tornado's track, 4 center pivot and 5 wheel irrigation lines were damaged. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 819 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 470 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPIH 142225 SVRPIH IDC005-011-077-142315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 326 PM MST MON FEB 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BANNOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO WESTERN BINGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO NORTHERN POWER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO * UNTIL 415 PM MST * AT 325 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES WEST OF POCATELLO OR 10 MILES WEST OF AMERICAN FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... AMERICAN FALLS AT 335 MST POCATELLO AND CHUBBUCK AT 345 PM MST FORT HALL AND BLACKFOOT AT 400 PM MST WINDS UP TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS...AS WELL AS FREQUENT LIGHTNING...PEA SIZE HAIL...AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. THIS IS A kDANGEROUS STORM. TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 2:53 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Blaine, Minidoka, Power | 47 min |
| Feb 14, 3:46 PM MST | Tornado Warning | PIH | Power | 34 min |
| Feb 14, 3:52 PM MST | Tornado Warning | PIH | Bannock | 33 min |
| Feb 14, 3:57 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bingham, Bonneville | 48 min |
| Feb 14, 4:05 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bonneville, Caribou | 65 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.