Alert archive / Idaho / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 2000, 5:06 PM MDT for Butte County, Idaho. It was in force for 34 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
- Sep 1, 2000, 5:06 PM MDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2000, 5:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butte County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 5:10 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Howe, 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 nearest sounding before it
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 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 012307 SVRPIH IDC023-012340- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 506 PM MDT FRI SEP 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BUTTE COUNTY IN EASTERN IDAHO * UNTIL 540 PM MDT * AT 505 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF HOWE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL... BE EAST OF BERENICE BY 515 PM MDT CROSS STATE ROUTE 33 BY 520 PM MDT THIS WARNING REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL BUTTE COUNTY. MARBLpE TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. N
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 11:42 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bonneville | 33 min |
| Sep 1, 11:48 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Butte | 47 min |
| Sep 1, 11:54 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Butte, Clark | 31 min |
| Sep 1, 12:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Madison | 47 min |
| Sep 1, 12:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Jefferson | 35 min |
| Sep 1, 12:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bannock, Caribou | 47 min |
| Sep 1, 12:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Clark, Jefferson | 34 min |
| Sep 1, 12:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Fremont, Madison | 49 min |
| Sep 1, 1:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Clark | 35 min |
| Sep 1, 2:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Jefferson, Madison | 45 min |
| Sep 1, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bonneville | 31 min |
| Sep 1, 3:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Cassia | 33 min |
| Sep 1, 3:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Sep 1, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Power | 32 min |
| Sep 1, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bingham | 34 min |
| Sep 1, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Minidoka | 33 min |
| Sep 1, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bingham | 35 min |
| Sep 1, 4:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Blaine | 34 min |
| Sep 1, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Butte | 33 min |
| Sep 1, 4:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Butte | 31 min |
| Sep 1, 4:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Butte | 34 min |
| Sep 1, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Clark | 41 min |
Nearby
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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.