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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2006, 3:38 PM MDT for Bingham County, Idaho. It was in force for 52 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
- Jul 11, 2006, 3:38 PM MDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2006, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bingham County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 274 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -472 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 11, 3:08 PM MDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 3:08 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 5:21 AM MDT, 10 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 521 AM MDT TUE JUL 11 2006 IDZ017>025-031-032-121200- EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY-SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS-UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS- UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN- SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-CARIBOU HIGHLANDS- CACHE VALLEY/IDAHO PORTION-WASATCH MOUNTAINS/IDAHO PORTION- BIG AND LITTLE WOOD RIVER REGION-LOST RIVER/PAHSIMEROI- 521 AM MDT TUE JUL 11 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT...TIGHTENING PRESSURE GRADIENTS...AND WARM AND VERY DRY CONDITIONS WILL GENERATE RED FLAG CONDITIONS IN PORTIONS OF THE LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN AND EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. SEE THE LATEST RFWPIH FOR THE DETAILS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY OVER TERRAIN NEAR THE MONTANA AND WYOMING STATE BORDERS. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN IN CONTROL WITH WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WE ASK TRAINED SPOTTERS AND CITIZENS TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO. THESE CONDITIONS MAY INCLUDE HAIL...TORNADOES...STRONG WIND...DUST STORMS...SNOWFALL... EXTREME COLD TEMPERATURES...FREEZING RAIN OR HEAVY RAIN...DENSE FOG...AND FLOODING OR ICE JAMS. INFORMATION ABOUT THESE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS SHOULD BE CALLED INTO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN POCATELLO USING THE 1-800 SEVERE WEATHER HOTLINE...OR 208-233-0834.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 6:25 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PIH | 12 hr | |
| Jul 11, 1:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Cassia | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.