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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2008, 4:35 PM MDT for Bingham County, Power County, Idaho. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 20, 2008, 4:35 PM MDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2008, 5:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bingham County, ID, Power County, ID
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 3527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 20, 3:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 3:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 20, 6:10 AM MDT, 10 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 610 AM MDT SUN JUL 20 2008 IDZ017>025-031-032-211200- 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- 610 AM MDT SUN JUL 20 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED EACH DAY...MAINLY IN THE MOUNTAINS. LITTLE IF ANY RAINFALL...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 3:51 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | PIH | Bingham, Bonneville, Butte, Clark, Fremont, Jefferson and 3 more | 11 hr |
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.