Alert archive / Idaho / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2000, 12:51 PM MDT for Clark County, Jefferson 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, 12:51 PM MDT (18:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2000, 1:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clark County, ID, Jefferson County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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, 1:15 PM MDT | Hail 1.25 | Dubois, 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 315 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 WFUS55 KPIH 011851 TORPIH IDC033-051-011925- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 1251 PM MDT FRI SEP 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN EASTERN IDAHO NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN EASTERN IDAHO * UNTIL 125 PM MDT * AT 1250 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DUBOIS... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DUBOIS AT 115 PM MDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHEkLTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS AND DOORS. 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, 12:56 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, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm 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.