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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pocatello, ID

July 12, 2014Clark County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this special weather statement at Jul 12, 2014, 2:04 PM MDT for Clark County, Idaho. It was in force for 71 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: Jul 12, 2014, 2:04 PM MDT (20:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2014, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 71 min
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID

County Clark County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 11, 2:08 PM MDT, 23 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 2:08 PM MDT, 23 hours 56 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
208 PM MDT FRI JUL 11 2014

.SHORT TERM...THIS AFTERNOONS MAIN IMPACT WILL BE HEAVY RAIN IN
SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM CELLS. BASED ON MORNINGS UPPER AIR
SOUNDINGS THE PRECIPITABLE WATER AMOUNTS RANGE UP TO 1.25 INCHES.
INITIAL RADAR ESTIMATES THAT SOME OF THE SLOWER MOVING STORMS SO
FAR HAVE PRODUCED UP TO .75 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE LESS THAN 1
HOUR. DUE TO THIS HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT AND SLOW MOVEMENT A FLASH
FLOOD WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN LOCATIONS OF IDAHO.
WIND GUST POTENTIAL FOR THE STORMS NEARS 45 TO 50 MPH WHICH
COMBINED WITH HIGH FREEZING LEVEL SHOULD LIMIT THE SEVERE
POTENTIAL.

SATURDAY WE ARE EXPECTING ANOTHER ROUND OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS
ALONG WITH LIGHT UPPER LEVEL WINDS MAY PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF
HEAVY RAIN FOR IMPACT CONCERNS.

.LONG TERM...RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES IN ON SUNDAY WITH
WARMING TEMPERATURES BUT A WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCE SLIDES BY TO
THE NORTH OF US ON MONDAY INTO TUESDAY WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM
CHANCES ALONG THE IDAHO / MONTANA BORDER. NORTHWEST FLOW
AFTERWARDS KEEPS US WARM AND DRY UNTIL FRIDAY. TWO LONG RANGE
MODELS HINTING AT TROUGH DEVELOPING BUT STRENGTH AND POSITION
LIMIT CONFIDENCE AT THIS POINT SO JUST PLACING CHANCE FOR
THUNDERSTORMS AT THIS POINT.  PRESTON

&&

.AVIATION...EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY.
WILL HAVE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AS WELL AS SATURDAY.  HAVE
VICINITY THUNDERSTORMS AT ALL 4 TAF SITES THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING.  WILL HAVE WIND GUSTS FROM THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW BUT OTHER
THAN THAT NOT EXPECTING STRONG WINDS THROUGH SATURDAY.
GK

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...EXPECT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED WET THUNDERSTORMS TODAY
ACROSS THE DISTRICT.  WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ZONES 475 AND 476
DEWPOINTS ARE VERY ELEVATED AND EXPECT RAIN WHERE THUNDERSTORMS
OCCUR.  FLOOD WATCHES HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE CHUNK OF SOUTHERN
AND EASTERN PARTS OF THE DISTRICT WHERE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR
THIS EVENING.  EXPECT MORE OF THE SAME CONDITIONS SATURDAY WITH
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING.  EXPECT DRIER CONDITIONS
SUNDAY UNDER A STRENGTHENING UPPER LEVEL RIDGE.
GK

&&

.PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING IDZ022>025.

&&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 6:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Franklin	61 min
Jul 11, 6:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Jefferson	60 min
Jul 11, 6:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Jefferson	53 min
Jul 11, 7:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Teton	45 min
Jul 12, 3:11 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PIH		17 hr
Jul 12, 1:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bonneville, Teton	47 min
Jul 12, 1:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Clark	42 min
Jul 12, 2:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Teton	53 min
Jul 12, 3:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Fremont	59 min
Jul 12, 3:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Butte	63 min
Jul 12, 3:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Butte	51 min
Jul 12, 4:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Butte	59 min
Jul 12, 4:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bingham	60 min
Jul 12, 4:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bingham, Minidoka	65 min
Jul 12, 5:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bingham	55 min
Jul 12, 5:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bingham, Lincoln, Minidoka, Power	52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.