Alert archive / Idaho / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this red flag warning at Jun 24, 2012, 11:49 AM MDT for 9 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Jun 24, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 10 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
- Jun 24, 2012, 11:49 AM MDT (17:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 24, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2012, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
Counties Bingham County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Clark County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Madison County, ID, Power County, ID, Teton County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 307 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
- 4311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
519 WWUS85 KPIH 241749 RFWPIH URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 1149 AM MDT SUN JUN 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO FIRE ZONE 410 BELOW 6000 FEET FROM 12 PM MDT TODAY TO 10 PM MDT TONIGHT... IDZ410-250400- /O.NEW.KPIH.FW.W.0003.120624T1800Z-120625T0400Z/ UPPER SNAKE RIVER VALLEY/IDAHO FALLS BLM- 1149 AM MDT SUN JUN 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE ZONE 410 BELOW 6000 FEET... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING BELOW 6000 FEET...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA: IN IDAHO...FIRE ZONE 410 UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN INCLUDING THE INL COMPLEX BELOW 6000 FEET. * TIMING: 12 PM MDT TODAY TO 10 PM MDT TONIGHT. * WIND: SOUTH SOUTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY: 5 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS: THE COMBINATION OF WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY WILL LEAD TO EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. 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. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/POCATELLO
1 follow-up statement
712 WWUS85 KPIH 250336 RFWPIH URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 936 PM MDT SUN JUN 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 10 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE ZONE 410 BELOW 6000 FEET... IDZ410-250445- /O.EXP.KPIH.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-120625T0400Z/ UPPER SNAKE RIVER VALLEY/IDAHO FALLS BLM- 936 PM MDT SUN JUN 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 10 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE ZONE 410 BELOW 6000 FEET... THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 410 BELOW 6000 FEET WILL EXPIRE AT 10 PM MDT THIS EVENING. WINDS CONTINUE TO DECREASE ACROSS THE AREA ALONG WITH HUMIDITY VALUES. THERE WILL BE SOME POCKETS OF LOW HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS CONTINUING FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS...BUT NOT ON A WIDESPREAD BASIS. $$ 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.