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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Pocatello, ID

June 22, 201214 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this fire weather watch at Jun 22, 2012, 2:06 PM MDT for 14 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Jun 24, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2012, 2:06 PM MDT (20:06 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 24, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Jun 24, 2012, 3:13 AM MDT
In force
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, Madison County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID, Teton County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 316 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2012-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2012-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -62 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
4615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 2:06 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.