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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Pocatello, ID

August 14, 2014Bingham County, Blaine County, Power County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2014, 6:27 PM MDT for Bingham County, Blaine County, Power County, Idaho. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 14, 2014, 6:27 PM MDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 2014, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Bingham County, ID, Blaine County, ID, Power County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 258 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2014-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 75 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2014-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
75 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 14, 1:50 PM MDT, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 1:50 PM MDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
150 PM MDT THU AUG 14 2014

.DISCUSSION...THE PERSISTENT UPPER LOW WAS LOCATED OVER THE
COLUMBIA GORGE THIS AFTN...AND EXPECTED TO FILL AND MOVE TO NC MT
ON SATURDAY. MOST OF THE MONSOON MOISTURE HAS MOVED OFF TO THE
NORTH AND EAST...BUT ENOUGH MOISTURE LINGERS TO FUEL SHOWERS/TSTMS
OVER THE FCST AREA. GREATEST COVERAGE WILL BE IN THE EAST AND
NORTH PARTS OF THE FCST AREA. SOME TSTMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS
AND SMALL HAIL...ESPECIALLY LATE THIS AFTN. ACTIVITY WILL DIMINISH
THIS EVENING OVER THE WESTERN PARTS AND THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN...
BUT CONTINUE NEAR THE WY AND MT BORDERS. ON FRIDAY...DRIER AIR
BECOMES MORE DOMINANT. THIS WILL LIMIT ACTIVITY TO ONLY ISOLD
TSTMS IN THE CENTRAL MTNS AND EASTERN HIGHLANDS. BY SATURDAY...THE
UPPER LOW MOVES FAR ENOUGH AWAY TO LIMIT ACTIVITY TO ALONG THE
DIVIDE. WEAK UPPER RIDGING SETS UP FOR THE REST OF THE WEEKEND AND
PERSISTS THRU TUE. THIS WILL RESULT IN DRY CONDITIONS AND WARMER
TEMPS THRU TUE.

BY WED...THE PATTERN SHOWS SIGNS OF CHANGE. THE NORTHERN STREAM
BEGINS TO SAG SOUTHWARD INTO THE PAC NW...AND SUGGEST COOLER TEMPS
FOR WED AND THU. ALSO...THE POSSIBILITY OF SHOWERS NEAR THE
DIVIDE. HEDGES

&&

.AVIATION...UPPER LEVEL LOW IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST CONTINUES TO
BRING MOIST UNSTABLE AIR INTO SOUTHERN/CENTRAL IDAHO. NOT MUCH IN
THE WAY OF WIND UNLESS THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW REACHES AIRDROME. GFS
HAD THE BETTER INSTABILITY FORECAST...AND KSUN SHOULD BE OUT OF ANY
SERIOUS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. BUT KIDA AND KPIH HAVE NEGATIVE
LIFTED INDICES AND CAPE GREATER THAN 300J/KG THROUGH NEARLY 15/06Z.
SO HAVE EXTENDED VCTS FORECAST FOR THOSE TWO AIRPORTS AND INTRODUCED
ONE UNTIL 15/00Z AT KBYI...WHEN LIFTED INDEX AND CAPE ARE
NEGATIVE/ABOVE 300J/KG. SPC IS CONSIDERING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH WITH GOOD INVERTED-V SOUNDINGS...SO HAVE PUT IN TEMPO GROUP OF
TSRA ACTIVITY FOR MID- TO LATE AFTERNOON PERIOD AT THESE TWO
LOCATIONS. BOTH HAVE MORE THAN 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN
MOS GUIDANCE...GOOD UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE...AND STABILITY
PARAMETERS ALL POINT TO INTENSE AND WIDESPREAD TSRA ACTIVITY.
CLEARING SHOULD TAKE PLACE TONIGHT AS THIS UPPER LEVEL LOW FINALLY
GETS IN PHASE WITH A MORE NORTHERN SHORTWAVE WHICH ACTS AS A KICKER
TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST LOW. THERE IS ALSO A POTENTIAL ROUND OF
SHRA LATE TONIGHT. ONLY IMPACT TO CIG OR VSBY WOULD BE REDUCED VSBY
IN TSRA. WINDS OUTSIDE OF TSRA CONTINUE LIGHT. MESSICK

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...CLOSED UPPER LEVEL LOW LINGERING OVER THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST FOR ANOTHER 24 HOURS OR SO...THUS EXPECT MORE THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY WITH LESS INTENSE SHOWERS. STILL...A GOOD PORTION OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING WETTING RAINS. THE LOW...AFTER LINGERING
FOR NEARLY 9 DAYS...WILL BEGIN TO MOVE OUT AS IT GETS ABSORBED BY A
STRONG TROUGH MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN CANADA. AS IT CLEARS OUT
FRI...DRYING DEVELOPS...ALBEIT SLOW. THE UPPER LEVEL HAS A STRONGER
WESTERLY FLOW THAT WILL MEAN STRONGER WINDS THAN WE HAVE BEEN HAVING
LATELY WITH WED AND THU LOOKING MUCH STRONGER FOR WIND. SLOW DRYING
OF HUMIDITY AS TEMPERATURES WILL NOT SEE MUCH OF A WARM UP DESPITE
MAINLY CLEAR SKIES. MESSICK

&&

.PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 14, 3:51 PM MDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
351 PM MDT THU AUG 14 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0351 PM     HAIL             10 SSW AMERICAN FALLS   42.65N 112.93W
08/14/2014  E0.25 INCH       POWER              ID   TRAINED SPOTTER

            PEA SIZE HAIL

&&

ADESMET
Local storm report, Aug 14, 4:03 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
403 PM MDT THU AUG 14 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0402 PM     HAIL             7 W POCATELLO           42.88N 112.61W
08/14/2014  E0.50 INCH       POWER              ID   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HEAVY RAIN WITH MARBLE SIZE HAIL

&&

ADESMET
Local storm report, Aug 14, 4:37 PM MDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
437 PM MDT THU AUG 14 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0402 PM     HAIL             5 N MCCAMMON            42.72N 112.21W
08/14/2014  E0.50 INCH       BANNOCK            ID   TRAINED SPOTTER

            MARBLE SIZE HAIL

&&

ADESMET
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 4:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
438 PM MDT THU AUG 14 2014

IDZ023-142330-
CARIBOU ID-BANNOCK ID-
438 PM MDT THU AUG 14 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  CENTRAL BANNOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
  WEST CENTRAL CARIBOU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO

UNTIL 530 PM MDT

AT 435 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH OF ROBIN..MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH.

HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL CENTRAL BANNOCK COUNTY...
  RURAL WESTERN CARIBOU COUNTY...

LAT...LON 4291 11209 4280 11189 4263 11219 4270 11229
TIME...MOT...LOC 2238Z 225DEG 16KT 4271 11219

EP
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 4:52 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
452 PM MDT THU AUG 14 2014

IDZ023-142315-
CARIBOU ID-
452 PM MDT THU AUG 14 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL CARIBOU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO

UNTIL 515 PM MDT

AT 449 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRACE..MOVING NORTHEAST AT
20 MPH.

HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...
ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
   GRACE...

LAT...LON 4270 11172 4246 11163 4242 11187 4260 11190
TIME...MOT...LOC 2251Z 225DEG 16KT 4257 11181

VALLE
Local storm report, Aug 14, 5:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 6:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHPower42 min
Aug 14, 7:08 PM MDTTornado WarningPIHBingham, Blaine, Butte, Power44 min
Aug 14, 8:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHCassia63 min
Aug 14, 8:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHCassia36 min
Aug 14, 11:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBannock, Bonneville, Caribou82 min
Aug 15, 3:19 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBingham, Jefferson86 min
Aug 15, 1:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHOneida44 min
Aug 15, 1:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHTeton23 min
Aug 15, 2:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHOneida, Power49 min
Aug 15, 2:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBonneville, Teton55 min
Aug 15, 3:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHCaribou56 min
Aug 15, 3:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBannock65 min
Aug 15, 4:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBannock22 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.