Alert archive / Idaho / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2007, 11:29 AM MDT for Oneida 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2007, 11:29 AM MDT (17:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Oneida County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS55 KPIH 051730
TORPIH
IDC071-051800-
/O.NEW.KPIH.TO.W.0003.070905T1729Z-070905T1800Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
1129 AM MDT WED SEP 5 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BUIST...
* UNTIL NOON MDT
* AT 1124 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUIST...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
INDICATED COUNTY.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
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 4222 11248 4231 11265 4242 11255 4242 11249
4248 11249 4251 11247 4240 11227 4238 11228
TIME...MOT...LOC 1729Z 211DEG 45KT 4234 11248
$$
HEDGES1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS55 KPIH 051807
SVSPIH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
1207 PM MDT WED SEP 5 2007
IDC071-051817-
/O.EXP.KPIH.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070905T1800Z/
ONEIDA ID-
1207 PM MDT WED SEP 5 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY EXPIRED AT
NOON MDT...
LAT...LON 4222 11248 4231 11265 4242 11255 4242 11249
4248 11249 4251 11247 4240 11227 4238 11228
TIME...MOT...LOC 1729Z 211DEG 45KT 4234 11248
$$
HEDGESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 8:12 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Blaine | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 9:00 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Cassia, Oneida | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 9:39 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Bannock | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 11:43 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Bannock | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 12:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Bannock | 28 min |
| Sep 5, 12:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Caribou | 24 min |
| Sep 5, 12:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bear Lake, Franklin | 46 min |
| Sep 5, 12:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Caribou | 51 min |
| Sep 5, 1:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Caribou | 36 min |
| Sep 5, 1:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Bear Lake, Caribou | 23 min |
| Sep 5, 1:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Bonneville | 33 min |
| Sep 5, 3:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Blaine | 4 hr |
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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.