Alert archive / Idaho / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2004, 3:09 PM MDT for Bingham County, Bonneville County, Idaho. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 4, 2004, 3:09 PM MDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2004, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bingham County, ID, Bonneville County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2277 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 042109 TORPIH IDC011-019-042145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 307 PM MDT SUN JUL 4 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL BINGHAM COUNTY IN IDAHO THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SHELLEY ABD FIRTH SOUTHERN BONNEVILLE COUNTY IN IDAHO * UNTIL 345 PM MDT * AT 303 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHELLEY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOSHEN... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. 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 4355 11227 4342 11244 4316 11214 4334 11191 $$ DSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bingham, Bonneville, Jefferson | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 2:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bingham, Bonneville | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Fremont, Jefferson | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Fremont | 36 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.