Alert archive / Idaho / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this red flag warning at Sep 14, 2011, 3:26 AM MDT for 15 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Sep 14, 2011, 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
- Sep 14, 2011, 3:26 AM MDT (09:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 14, 2011, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2011, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
Counties Bannock County, ID, Bear Lake County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Caribou County, ID, Clark County, ID, Franklin County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Lemhi County, ID, Madison County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID, Teton County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:28 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 284 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
- 3122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
769 WWUS85 KPIH 140926 RFWPIH URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 326 AM MDT WED SEP 14 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS FOR FIRE ZONES 410...411 AND 413... .AN UPPER TROF WILL SLIDE THROUGH EXTREME EASTERN IDAHO TODAY AND EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THAT REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IDZ410-411-413-150300- /O.NEW.KPIH.FW.W.0009.110914T1800Z-110915T0300Z/ UPPER SNAKE RIVER VALLEY/IDAHO FALLS BLM- CENTENNIAL MOUNTAINS AND SNAKE RIVER RANGE/TARGHEE NF- CARIBOU RANGE/CARIBOU NF- 326 AM MDT WED SEP 14 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS FOR FIRE ZONES 410...411 AND 413... 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. * AFFECTED AREA: IN IDAHO...FIRE ZONE 410 UPPER SNAKE RIVER VALLEY/IDAHO FALLS BLM...FIRE ZONE 411 CENTENNIAL MOUNTAINS AND SNAKE RIVER RANGE/TARGHEE NF...FIRE ZONE 413 CARIBOU RANGE/CARIBOU NF. * TIMING: NOON TODAY THROUGH 9 PM MDT. * THUNDERSTORMS: WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED IN COVERAGE. * OUTFLOW WINDS: GUSTS TO 30 MPH. * PRECIPITATION: EXPECT MOST STORMS TO PRODUCE LESS THAN ONE TENTH INCH PER 12 HOURS SOME STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. * IMPACTS: DUE TO DRY FUELS...THE THREAT OF NEW FIRE STARTS AS WELL AS SPREADING OF EXISTING FIRES DUE TO GUSTY WINDS IS HIGH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/POCATELLO
2 follow-up statements
664 WWUS85 KPIH 141954 RFWPIH URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 154 PM MDT WED SEP 14 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS FOR FIRE ZONE 413... .AN UPPER TROF WILL SLIDE THROUGH EXTREME EASTERN IDAHO TODAY. EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THAT REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IDZ410-411-142100- /O.CAN.KPIH.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-110915T0300Z/ UPPER SNAKE RIVER VALLEY/IDAHO FALLS BLM- CENTENNIAL MOUNTAINS AND SNAKE RIVER RANGE/TARGHEE NF- 154 PM MDT WED SEP 14 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS FOR FIRE ZONES 410 AND 411... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. $$ IDZ413-150300- /O.CON.KPIH.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-110915T0300Z/ CARIBOU RANGE/CARIBOU NF- 154 PM MDT WED SEP 14 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS FOR FIRE ZONE 413... * AFFECTED AREA: IN IDAHO...FIRE ZONE 413 CARIBOU RANGE/CARIBOU NF. * TIMING: CONTINUING UNTIL 9 PM MDT. * THUNDERSTORMS: WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED IN COVERAGE. * OUTFLOW WINDS: GUSTS TO 30 MPH. * PRECIPITATION: EXPECT MOST STORMS TO PRODUCE LESS THAN ONE TENTH INCH PER 12 HOURS SOME STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. * IMPACTS: DUE TO DRY FUELS...THE THREAT OF NEW FIRE STARTS AS WELL AS SPREADING OF EXISTING FIRES DUE TO GUSTY WINDS IS HIGH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/POCATELLO
340 WWUS85 KPIH 150251 RFWPIH URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 851 PM MDT WED SEP 14 2011 IDZ413-150400- /O.EXP.KPIH.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-110915T0300Z/ CARIBOU RANGE/CARIBOU NF- 851 PM MDT WED SEP 14 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS FOR EASTERN IDAHO FIRE ZONE 413... $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/POCATELLO
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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.