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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2007, 1:14 PM MDT for Caribou 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2007, 1:14 PM MDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2007, 1:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Caribou County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 1056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 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 051916 TORPIH IDC029-052000- /O.NEW.KPIH.TO.W.0007.070905T1914Z-070905T2000Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 115 PM MDT WED SEP 5 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CARIBOU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAYAN... * UNTIL 200 PM MDT * AT 110 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTH OF WAYAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. 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 4272 11139 4301 11144 4303 11105 4270 11105 TIME...MOT...LOC 1914Z 224DEG 34KT 4285 11136 $$ HEDGES
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS55 KPIH 051950 SVSPIH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 150 PM MDT WED SEP 5 2007 IDC029-051959- /O.CAN.KPIH.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070905T2000Z/ CARIBOU ID- 149 PM MDT WED SEP 5 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CARIBOU COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF CARIBOU COUNTY. LAT...LON 4272 11139 4301 11144 4303 11105 4270 11105 TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 224DEG 34KT 4309 11105 $$ HEDGES
The 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, 11:29 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Oneida | 31 min |
| 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, 1:28 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.