Alert archive / Idaho / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 2007, 1:27 PM MDT for Power County, Idaho. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2007, 1:27 PM MDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2007, 2:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Power County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 2:00 PM MDT | HAIL 0.5 | 4 E Rockland, ID | DIME SIZE, 1/2 INCH HAIL. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 2267 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KPIH 221927 TORPIH IDC077-222015- /O.NEW.KPIH.TO.W.0002.070822T1927Z-070822T2015Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 127 PM MDT WED AUG 22 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL POWER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO... * UNTIL 215 PM MDT * AT 124 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROCKLAND...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF NEELEY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL CENTRAL POWER COUNTY AT 140 PM MDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4282 11269 4259 11256 4251 11291 4267 11298 TIME...MOT...LOC 1927Z 245DEG 36KT 4263 11284 $$ BRW
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KPIH 221942 SVSPIH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 142 PM MDT WED AUG 22 2007 IDC077-222015- /O.CON.KPIH.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070822T2015Z/ POWER ID- 142 PM MDT WED AUG 22 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL POWER COUNTY... AT 139 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROCKLAND...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF NEELEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS SITUATION STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL MEDIA...OR BY LOGGING ON TO WWW.WEATHER.GOV/POCATELLO. LAT...LON 4282 11269 4259 11256 4251 11291 4267 11298 TIME...MOT...LOC 1942Z 245DEG 36KT 4269 11265 $$ BRW
000 WWUS55 KPIH 222012 SVSPIH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 212 PM MDT WED AUG 22 2007 IDC077-222022- /O.EXP.KPIH.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070822T2015Z/ POWER ID- 212 PM MDT WED AUG 22 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL POWER COUNTY EXPIRES AT 215 PM MDT... THIS STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF POWER COUNTY. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS SITUATION STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL MEDIA...OR BY LOGGING ON TO WWW.WEATHER.GOV/POCATELLO. LAT...LON 4282 11269 4259 11256 4251 11291 4267 11298 TIME...MOT...LOC 2012Z 245DEG 36KT 4282 11228 $$ BRW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 11:48 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Cassia, Minidoka | 27 min |
| Aug 22, 12:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Blaine, Cassia, Power | 40 min |
| Aug 22, 12:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Cassia | 44 min |
| Aug 22, 1:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Cassia, Power | 48 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.