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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 2014, 1:24 PM MDT for 4 counties in Idaho. It was in force for 36 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
- Sep 18, 2014, 1:24 PM MDT (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2014, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bannock County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Caribou County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 18, 8:07 AM MDT, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 8:07 AM MDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 1:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Caribou | 53 min |
| Sep 18, 1:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Butte | 56 min |
| Sep 18, 1:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Cassia | 66 min |
| Sep 18, 1:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bingham, Bonneville, Caribou | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 2:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Jefferson | 58 min |
| Sep 18, 2:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Cassia, Oneida, Power | 43 min |
| Sep 18, 2:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bonneville | 55 min |
| Sep 18, 2:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Teton | 50 min |
| Sep 18, 2:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Caribou | 59 min |
| Sep 18, 2:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Cassia, Oneida, Power | 48 min |
| Sep 18, 3:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Cassia, Oneida, Power | 41 min |
| Sep 18, 3:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bannock, Oneida, Power | 52 min |
| Sep 18, 4:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Oneida | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bannock, Caribou | 45 min |
| Sep 18, 4:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bonneville | 48 min |
| Sep 18, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bannock, Franklin, Oneida, Power | 40 min |
| Sep 18, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bannock, Caribou, Oneida | 19 min |
| Sep 18, 5:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Oneida | 47 min |
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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.