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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Pocatello, ID

July 11, 2014

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this flash flood watch at Jul 11, 2014, 12:59 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 2014, 12:59 PM MDT (18:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2014, 7:50 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Flood severity
None

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Jul 11, 9:49 AM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 9:49 AM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 12:35 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
1235 PM MDT FRI JUL 11 2014

IDZ022>025-111915-
BEAR LAKE ID-CARIBOU ID-ONEIDA ID-POWER ID-CASSIA ID-BANNOCK
ID-FRANKLIN ID-
1235 PM MDT FRI JUL 11 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  CASSIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
  BANNOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
  SOUTHERN POWER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
  ONEIDA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
  CARIBOU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
  BEAR LAKE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO

UNTIL 115 PM MDT

AT 1227 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST IDAHO.  THE
STRONGEST CELL WAS 20 MILES EAST OF SODA SPRINGS NEAR THE SMOKEY
CANYON AREA.  VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT OF STORMS THIS AFTERNOON MAY
PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN UP TO 1 INCH IN AN HOUR.  LOCALIZED FLASH
FLOODING IS POSSIBLE.

USE CAUTION NEAR ANY THUNDERSTORM.  GET INDOORS OR INTO A VEHICLE TO
AVOID THE FREQUENT LIGHTNING.  DO NOT TRAVEL THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 4204 11422 4246 11349 4293 11204 4299 11111
      4203 11107
TIME...MOT...LOC 1830Z 226DEG 5KT 4265 11127

PRESTON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 12:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBannock, Bear Lake, Caribou, Cassia, Franklin, Oneida40 min
Jul 11, 2:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBannock, Cassia, Power58 min
Jul 11, 2:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHClark55 min
Jul 11, 2:41 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPIHBannock, Power2 hr
Jul 11, 3:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBonneville63 min
Jul 11, 3:18 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPIHCassia57 min
Jul 11, 3:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHClark63 min
Jul 11, 3:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBonneville53 min
Jul 11, 3:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBannock35 min
Jul 11, 3:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBonneville64 min
Jul 11, 4:03 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPIHPower57 min
Jul 11, 4:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHTeton54 min
Jul 11, 4:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHClark62 min
Jul 11, 4:39 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBannock, Oneida36 min
Jul 11, 4:56 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPIHPower64 min
Jul 11, 4:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBonneville64 min
Jul 11, 5:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHFremont, Jefferson63 min
Jul 11, 5:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHOneida44 min

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.