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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2014, 6:52 PM MDT for Camas County, 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 5, 2014, 6:52 PM MDT (00:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2014, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
County Camas County, ID
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2361 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Aug 5, 1:27 PM MDT, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 1:27 PM MDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 127 PM MDT TUE AUG 5 2014 .DISCUSSION...EXTREMELY MOIST AIR MASS REMAINS OVER THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. A DEFORMATION ZONE HAS SET UP OVER THE AREA WHICH IS HELPING TO AID THE DEVELOPMENT OF SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS. FURTHERMORE A MESOLOW OVER THE MAGIC VALLEY IS HELPING TO ENHANCE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE STORMS. RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL BE COMMON THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THEREFORE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE MOUNTAINS AND HIGHLANDS. LITTLE CHANGE IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. A BROAD LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER NEVADA WILL GRADUALLY WORK THROUGH THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THIS WILL MEAN A REPEAT OF CONDITIONS FOR BOTH DAYS. EXPECT THE GREATEST THREATS TO BE IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENINGS. BY FRIDAY THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE OFF TO THE EAST. HOWEVER MOIST AIR WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE FLOOD THREAT SHOULD COME TO AN END BY FRIDAY WITH THE LOW MOVING AWAY FROM THE REGION. SHOULD RETURN TO A MORE NORMAL MONSOON PATTERN WITH STORMS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND HIGHLANDS. VALLE && .AVIATION...XPECT WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MAJORITY OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. ALL TAF SITES WILL SEE SHOWERS AND BRIEF PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. LOOK FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF RAIN SHOWERS TOMORROW MORNING. EXPECT MOSTLY VFR CONDITIONS EXCEPT DURING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WHERE MVFR VIS AND CIGS ARE POSSIBLE. WYATT && .FIRE WEATHER...MONSOON MOISTURE CONTINUES TO POUR INTO THE AREA. EXPECT WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FOR ALL AREAS EXCEPT NORTHERN AREAS OF ZONES OF 475 AND 476 THIS AFTERNOON. LOOK FOR CONTINUED WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION AND AFTERNOON WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. FLASH FLOODING IS A CONCERN ESPECIALLY OVER BURN SCARS. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN ON THE COOL SIDE AND HUMIDITY ON THE HIGH SIDE THROUGH FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES RETURN TO MORE NORMAL READINGS OVER THE WEEKEND. WYATT && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING IDZ018-019-022>025-031-032. &&
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 5, 4:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
419 PM MDT TUE AUG 05 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0418 PM FLASH FLOOD POCATELLO 42.88N 112.47W
08/05/2014 BANNOCK ID NWS EMPLOYEE
SEVERAL INCHES OF YELLOWSTONE AND FLANDRO ROAD.
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VALLESpecial weather statement, Aug 5, 4:44 PM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 444 PM MDT TUE AUG 5 2014 IDZ019-020-032-052345- CLARK ID-JEFFERSON ID-BUTTE ID- 444 PM MDT TUE AUG 5 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... CENTRAL BUTTE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IDAHO SOUTHWESTERN CLARK COUNTY IN EASTERN IDAHO NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO AT 436 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF DUBOIS TO 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOWE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DUBOIS...SPENCER... HOWE... NORTHWEST INL AND ARCO... LAT...LON 4389 11242 4347 11357 4398 11323 4440 11207 TIME...MOT...LOC 2243Z 026DEG 21KT 4428 11224 4394 11317 HUSTON
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 4:52 PM MDT, 2 hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 6:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PIH | Bannock, Bear Lake, Caribou, Franklin, Oneida | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 7:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Camas | 49 min |
| Aug 5, 8:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Lincoln | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 9:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Power | 59 min |
| Aug 5, 11:43 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PIH | Cassia | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 11:56 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PIH | Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Aug 6, 9:09 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PIH | Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Clark, Fremont and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 10:37 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PIH | Blaine, Cassia, Lincoln, Minidoka, Power | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 11:55 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Bingham, Power | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 12:17 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PIH | Clark, Fremont | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 1:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Bingham, Blaine, Butte, Minidoka, Power | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 1:23 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Blaine | 6 hr |
| Aug 6, 1:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bonneville | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 2:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bingham | 26 min |
| Aug 6, 2:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Bingham, Bonneville, Butte, Jefferson | 113 min |
| Aug 6, 3:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Power | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 4:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Teton | 56 min |
| Aug 6, 4:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Jefferson, Madison | 65 min |
| Aug 6, 4:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bonneville | 52 min |
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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.