Alert archive / Idaho / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Feb 14, 2000, 3:52 PM MST for Bannock County, Idaho. It was in force for 33 min. 3 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, 3:52 PM MST (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2000, 4:25 PM MST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bannock County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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, 3:55 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. |
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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 212 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.
675 WFUS55 KPIH 142252 RRA TORPIH IDC005-142325- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 352 PM MST MON FEB 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BANNOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO * UNTIL 425 PM MST * AT 450 PM MST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NORTH OF THE POCATELLO MUNICIPAL AIRPORT... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CHUBBUCK AT 500 PM MST NORTH POCATELLO AT 455 PM MST
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, 3:26 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Power | 49 min |
| Feb 14, 3:46 PM MST | Tornado Warning | PIH | Power | 34 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 |
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.