Alert archive / Idaho / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2012, 7:37 PM MDT for 5 counties in Idaho. It was in force for 38 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
- Aug 26, 2012, 7:37 PM MDT (01:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2012, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Blaine County, ID, Cassia County, ID, Lincoln County, ID, Minidoka County, ID, Power County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
365
WUUS55 KPIH 270137
SVRPIH
IDC013-031-063-067-077-270215-
/O.NEW.KPIH.SV.W.0009.120827T0137Z-120827T0215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
737 PM MDT SUN AUG 26 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BLAINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL IDAHO...
NORTHERN CASSIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BURLEY...
SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO...
MINIDOKA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...RUPERT...PAUL...HEYBURN...
WEST CENTRAL POWER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO...
* UNTIL 815 PM MDT
* AT 730 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF PAUL TO 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURLEY...
OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES EAST OF JEROME TO 19 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BURLEY...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS THAT COULD BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
BURLEY...
PAUL AND HEYBURN...
RUPERT...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE ACROSS TWIN FALLS
COUNTY WITH POWER OUTAGES REPORTED. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY
STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
STAY TUNED TO THIS BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL 1 800 8 7 7 1 9 3 7.
&&
LAT...LON 4230 11412 4242 11417 4243 11408 4252 11406
4254 11399 4254 11394 4276 11395 4276 11405
4280 11407 4280 11433 4283 11434 4331 11341
4246 11296
TIME...MOT...LOC 0136Z 249DEG 37KT 4278 11418 4243 11402
$$
DSHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 6:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bingham, Butte, Jefferson | 54 min |
| Aug 26, 6:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Custer | 43 min |
| Aug 26, 7:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Cassia, Lincoln, Minidoka | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Blaine, Cassia, Lincoln, Minidoka, Power | 48 min |
| Aug 26, 10:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bingham | 64 min |
| Aug 27, 12:59 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PIH | Bannock, Bear Lake, Bonneville, Caribou, Franklin, Oneida and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:04 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | PIH | Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Bonneville, Butte, Caribou and 12 more | 27 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.