Alert archive / Idaho / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this red flag warning at Jun 20, 2007, 3:44 AM MDT for 7 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Jun 20, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2007, 3:44 AM MDT (09:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 20, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2007, 8:51 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
Counties Bannock County, ID, Bear Lake County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Caribou County, ID, Franklin County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:45 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS85 KPIH 200944 RFWPIH RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 344 AM MDT WED JUN 20 2007 IDZ412-413-202145- /O.UPG.KPIH.FW.A.0001.070620T1800Z-070621T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KPIH.FW.W.0001.070620T1800Z-070621T0300Z/ GOOSE CREEK AND RAFT RIVER VALLEY/SOUTHERN SAWTOOTH NF- CARIBOU RANGE/CARIBOU NF- 344 AM MDT WED JUN 20 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. INCREASING SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON AS A WEAK DISTURBANCE LIFTS NORTHEAST THROUGH THE REGION. WIND GUSTS OF 25 TO 30 MPH COMBINED WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND CRITICAL FUEL CONDITIONS WILL PRODUCE RED FLAG CONDITIONS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE IMMANENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS85 KPIH 202137 RFWPIH RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 337 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2007 IDZ412-413-210300- /O.CON.KPIH.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070621T0300Z/ GOOSE CREEK AND RAFT RIVER VALLEY/SOUTHERN SAWTOOTH NF- CARIBOU RANGE/CARIBOU NF- 337 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING. SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE ANTICIPATED EARLY THIS EVENING AS A WEAK DISTURBANCE LIFTS NORTHEAST THROUGH THE REGION. WIND GUSTS OF 25 TO 30 MPH COMBINED WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND CRITICAL FUEL CONDITIONS WILL PRODUCE RED FLAG CONDITIONS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE IMMANENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
000 WWUS85 KPIH 210251 RFWPIH RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 851 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2007 IDZ412-413-210400- /O.CAN.KPIH.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070621T0300Z/ GOOSE CREEK AND RAFT RIVER VALLEY/SOUTHERN SAWTOOTH NF- CARIBOU RANGE/CARIBOU NF- 851 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST IDAHO ZONES 412 AND 413... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS CANCELED THE RED FLAG WARNING. WINDS IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL AND CARIBOU HIGHLANDS ARE STEADILY DIMINISHING THIS EVENING. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 4:15 PM MDT, 11 hours 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED FOR MATCHING TIMES NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 415 PM MDT TUE JUN 19 2007 IDZ017>025-031-032-201200- 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- 415 PM MDT TUE JUN 19 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND MODERATE WIND HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS SOUTH OF THE SNAKE RIVER IN IDAHO. .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.
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.