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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Pocatello, ID

June 3, 2004Bannock County, Power County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2004, 6:46 PM MDT for Bannock County, Power County, Idaho. It was in force for 29 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
Jun 3, 2004, 6:46 PM MDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2004, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bannock County, ID, Power County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 240 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 2004-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 432 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 2004-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
432 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KPIH 040046
SVRPIH
IDC005-077-040115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID
644 PM MDT THU JUN 3 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN POWER COUNTY IN IDAHO 
  NORTHWESTERN BANNOCK COUNTY IN IDAHO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF POCATELLO
  CENTRAL POWER COUNTY IN IDAHO

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 638 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  ARBON VALLEY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF AMERICAN  
  FALLS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH.

  THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS OF 50 TO 60 MPH WITH GUSTS 
  TO 65 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MICHAUD...CHUBBUCK AND POCATELLO BY 710 PM MDT


LAT...LON 4284 11281 4272 11275 4284 11239 4300 11224
          4298 11268

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TA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 6:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBingham, Power52 min
Jun 3, 7:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBingham, Bonneville58 min
Jun 3, 7:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBannock, Power25 min
Jun 3, 8:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBonneville, Jefferson, Madison43 min
Jun 4, 5:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBonneville20 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.