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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2014, 6:29 PM MDT for Custer County, Idaho. It was in force for 61 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 6, 2014, 6:29 PM MDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2014, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
County Custer County, ID
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 399 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
- 74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 6, 1:54 PM MDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 1:54 PM MDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 154 PM MDT WED AUG 6 2014 .DISCUSSION...VERY MOIST LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM REMAINS CENTERED OVER THE TWIN FALLS AREA THIS AFTERNOON. A DEFORMATION ZONE EXTENDS NORTHEAST OF THE LOW...BANKED UP AGAINST THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IS FALLING IN THIS ZONE WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO AN INCH. SOUTH OF THE DEFORMATION ZONE...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING. AS WAS THE CASE YESTERDAY...THESE STORMS ARE PACKING HEAVY RAIN WITH AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES LIKELY IN THUNDERSTORMS. THE LOW WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST TONIGHT AND BE OVER EASTERN IDAHO ON THURSDAY. TOMORROW LOOKS TO BE VERY MUCH A REPEAT OF TODAY...EXCEPT THE LOW WILL BE SHIFTED OVER THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS ON THURSDAY. IT WILL NOT EXIT THE REGION UNTIL FRIDAY. THEREFORE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST IDAHO UNTIL THURSDAY NIGHT. SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR WILL WORK INTO THE REGION BEHIND THE LOW FOR FRIDAY AND BEYOND. HOWEVER THERE WILL STILL BE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AROUND...ESPECIALLY IN THE MOUNTAINS. THINK THE FLASH FLOODING THREAT WILL BE OVER ON FRIDAY THOUGH. VALLE && .AVIATION...AN UPPER LEVEL LOW CENTERED JUST WEST OF TWIN FALLS IDAHO IS BRINGING WRAP AROUND MOISTURE TO OUR AREA PARTICULARLY FOR KBYI AND KSUN. EXPECT IFR/MVFR CONDITIONS FOR KBYI AND KSUN DURING PERIODS OF MODERATE AND HEAVY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS. KPIH AND KIDA WILL HAVE MOSTLY VICINITY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THOUGH BRIEF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACCOMPANIED WITH MVFR CIGS/VIS. EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF PRECIPITATION TOMORROW MORNING FOR ALL TAF SITES BRINGING MVFR/IFR CIGS/VIS. WYATT && .FIRE WEATHER...AN UPPER LEVEL LOW CENTERED JUST WEST OF TWIN FALLS IDAHO IS BRINGING HIGH AMOUNTS OF WRAP-AROUND MOISTURE TO OUR AREA. EXPECT NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION AND ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AND TO AN LESSER EXTENT ON FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN WELL BELOW NORMAL AND HUMIDITY ON THE HIGH SIDE THROUGH FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES RETURN TO NEAR TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL OVER THE WEEKEND. WYATT && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING IDZ017>025-031-032. &&
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 4:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 10 minutes 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 7, 6:39 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bingham, Power | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 7:51 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Power | 84 min |
| Aug 7, 2:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Blaine | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 3:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bonneville | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 3:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Oneida | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 3:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bonneville | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 3:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Madison | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 4:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bonneville, Madison | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 4:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Blaine | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 4:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Power | 40 min |
| Aug 7, 4:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Madison, Teton | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 4:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bannock | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 5:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 5:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Custer | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 5:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Blaine | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 5:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Fremont | 56 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.