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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2006, 2:59 PM MDT for Blaine County, Butte County, Minidoka County, Idaho. It was in force for 31 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
- Oct 4, 2006, 2:59 PM MDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2006, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blaine County, ID, Butte County, ID, Minidoka County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 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 Oct 4, 3:40 AM MDT, 11 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 3:40 AM MDT, 11 hours 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Lincoln | 36 min |
| Oct 4, 3:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Lincoln | 24 min |
| Oct 4, 4:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Bingham, Blaine, Butte | 37 min |
| Oct 4, 4:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Blaine, Lincoln | 44 min |
| Oct 4, 4:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Bingham, Bonneville, Butte, Jefferson | 30 min |
| Oct 4, 5:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Bingham, Bonneville, Jefferson | 30 min |
| Oct 4, 5:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Bonneville, Jefferson | 30 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.