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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Pocatello, ID

October 4, 2006Lincoln County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2006, 3:27 PM MDT for Lincoln 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 4, 2006, 3:27 PM MDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Oct 4, 2006, 4:03 PM MDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lincoln County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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 Oct 4, 3:40 AM MDT, 11 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 3:40 AM MDT, 11 hours 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 4, 3:15 PM MDT, 12 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
315 PM MDT WED OCT 4 2006

IDZ017>025-031-032-051115-
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-
315 PM MDT WED OCT 4 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A WARM FRONT IS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN IDAHO THIS EVENING.  IT IS
BRINGING A RISK OF ISOLATED BUT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...INCLUDING
LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND DAMAGING WINDS.
THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD SUBSIDE BY MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.  AFTERNOON AND
EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.

.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
Oct 4, 2:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PIH	Blaine, Butte, Minidoka	31 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 2006 Every 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.