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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Pocatello, ID

May 29, 2005Bannock County, Oneida County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2005, 8:06 PM MDT for Bannock County, Oneida County, Idaho. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 2005, 8:06 PM MDT (02:06 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2005, 8:41 PM MDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bannock County, ID, Oneida County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 2005-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 30 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 2005-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 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
30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 29, 2:40 PM MDT, 5 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 2:40 PM MDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO IDAHO
240 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2005

.DISCUSSION...LATEST RADAR LOOP SHOWING AN ARC OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS FORMING JUST WEST OF FCST/A CLOSE TO MID LEVEL LOW.
STORMS ARE MOVING VERY SLOWLY SO MAIN THREAT WILL BE HAIL/LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN AS THEY SLOWLY TRACK INTO OUR WESTERN ZONES LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LATEST NAM MODEL TRACKS 7H LOW EAST ALONG
UT/ID BORDER TONIGHT. 7H LOW SHOULD BE POSITIONED ACROSS SE CORNER
OF ID BY 12Z MON. LATEST NAM KEEPS A BAND OF PRECIP ACROSS SE ZONES
MOST OF TONIGHT AS THERMAL GRADIENT ALONG SFC COLD FRONT
INCREASES. THUS HAVE KEPT A MENTION OF POPS MOST AREAS (HIGHEST POPS
SE ZONES). BY LATE MONDAY UPPER LOW ACROSS MT WILL TAKE OVER AND
KEEP ID IN COOL NW FLOW. LAPSE RATES WILL BE STEEP ON MONDAY GIVEN
PROXIMITY OF COLD UPPER LOW. NAM MODEL DEVELOPS CONVECTION ACROSS
THE AREA MONDAY AFTERNOON IN NW FLOW AND THIS SEEMS REASONABLE (GFS
DRY). MONDAY NIGHT SHOULD BE MAINLY DRY WITH CLEARING. THIS WILL BE
SHORT LIVED AS YET ANOTHER 5H TROF (POSITIVE TILT) APPROACHES AREA.
THIS TROF WILL SPREAD PRECIP INTO THE CENTRAL MTNS TUESDAY NIGHT AND
THEN ACROSS REMAINDER OF AREA ON WEDNESDAY. SFC COLD FRONT APPEARS
TO TRACK ACROSS AREA EARLY WED. THIS WILL BE A RATHER COLD
TROF WITH SEVERAL REINFORCING SHOTS. UPPER TROF SHOULD BE FAR ENOUGH
SOUTH TO KEEP DIURNAL SHOWERS ACROSS AREA THROUGH FRIDAY. COLDEST
AIR SHOULD ARRIVE LATE FRIDAY AS ONE FINAL SPOKE OF ENERGY ROUNDS
DEEP TROF. PER GFS... TROF SHOULD MOVE EAST OF FORECAST AREA BY SAT
AFTN. LOOKS LIKE A DRY AND MILD WEEKEND BUT LOW CONFIDENCE IN
FORECAST ATTM.

WINTHER
&&

.AVIATION...SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION TODAY WITH
THE POTENTIAL FOR BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL.

&&

.PIH WATCHES/WARNING/ADVISORIES...NONE.
&&

WEATHER INFORMATION ON-LINE 24-HOURS A DAY
(ALL LOWER-CASE LETTERS)

WWW.WEATHER.GOV/POCATELLO
Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 5:25 AM MDT, 14 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
525 AM MDT SUN MAY 29 2005

IDZ017>025-031-032-301200-
LOST RIVER/PASHIMEROI-CACHE VALLEY/IDAHO PORTION-
SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-WASATCH MOUNTAINS/IDAHO PORTION-
LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY-
BIG AND LITTLE WOOD RIVER REGION-UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-
CARIBOU HIGHLANDS-UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS-
525 AM MDT SUN MAY 29 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO

.DAY ONE...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.  SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER MOST OF SOUTHEAST
IDAHO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 30 TO
40 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
WE ASK ALL TRAINED SPOTTERS TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS.
THIS WOULD INCLUDE ALL HAIL...WIND...AND HEAVY RAIN AND SNOW
REPORTS.  THIS INFORMATION SHOULD BE CALLED INTO THE LOCAL NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN POCATELLO USING THE 1-800 SEVERE WEATHER
HOTLINE...OR OTHER STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

DSH

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 29, 5:05 PM MDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID
505 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0500 PM     HAIL             ELBA                    42.25N 113.55W
05/29/2005  0.50 INCH        CASSIA             ID   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

PANGEL
Local storm report, May 29, 5:07 PM MDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID
507 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0500 PM     HAIL             ELBA                    42.25N 113.55W
05/29/2005  0.50 INCH        CASSIA             ID   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

PANGEL
Local storm report, May 29, 5:09 PM MDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID
509 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0507 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     ELBA                    42.25N 113.55W
05/29/2005                   CASSIA             ID   TRAINED SPOTTER

            QUATER SIZED HAIL -- 1 INCH

&&

PANGEL
Local storm report, May 29, 6:44 PM MDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID
644 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0643 PM     HAIL             STONE                   42.02N 112.70W
05/29/2005  0.88 INCH        ONEIDA             ID   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

PANGEL
Local storm report, May 29, 7:50 PM MDT, 16 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHOneida18 min
May 29, 7:46 PM MDTTornado WarningPIHOneida37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.