Alert archive / Idaho / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2003, 5:11 PM MDT for Bannock County, Bingham County, Power County, Idaho. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2003, 5:11 PM MDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2003, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bannock County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Power County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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
- 2050 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
497 WFUS55 KPIH 282311 TORPIH IDC005-011-077-282345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 508 PM MDT MON APR 28 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BANNOCK COUNTY IN IDAHO THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF POCATELLO SOUTH CENTRAL BINGHAM COUNTY IN IDAHO NORTHEASTERN POWER COUNTY IN IDAHO * UNTIL 545 PM MDT * AT 506 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PERSONNEL REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR THE POCATELLO AIRPORT JUST SOUTH OF I-86...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF POCATELLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ARBON VALLEY...1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF POCATELLO ARPT AT 515 PM MDT 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MICHAUD AT 520 PM MDT OVER CHUBBUCK...2 MILES NORTHWEST OF POCATELLO AT 530 PM MDT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT HALL AT 540 PM MDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4293 11272 4276 11261 4289 11216 4312 11233 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Minidoka | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Power | 66 min |
| Apr 28, 4:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Power | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 4:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Power | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bingham | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.