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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pocatello, ID

June 5, 2015Bannock County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this special weather statement at Jun 5, 2015, 1:08 AM MDT for Bannock County, Idaho. It was in force for 37 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
Jun 5, 2015, 1:08 AM MDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2015, 1:45 AM MDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID

County Bannock County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:11 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 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 238 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 2015-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 119 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 2015-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
119 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2439 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

402 
WWUS85 KPIH 050708
SPSPIH

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
108 AM MDT FRI JUN 5 2015
 
IDZ021-023-050745-
LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN ID-CARIBOU HIGHLANDS ID-
108 AM MDT FRI JUN 5 2015

...SOUTH CENTRAL BINGHAM AND NORTH CENTRAL BANNOCK COUNTIES UNTIL 145
AM MDT...

AT 105 AM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A STRONG 
THUNDERSTORM OVER PORTNEUF GAP AND SCOUT MOUNTAIN AREA. THIS STORM 
WAS NEARLY STATIONARY...DRIFTING NORTH TOWARDS POCATELLO WITH BRIEF 
HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
POCATELLO...CHUBBUCK...INKOM...FORT HALL BUFFALO LODGE...FORT HALL
PUTNAM LODGE...FORT HALL TOWNSITE...PORTNEUF GAP AND FORT HALL EAGLE
LODGE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 4276 11223 4275 11246 4311 11258 4312 11217
TIME...MOT...LOC 0705Z 180DEG 0KT 4284 11235 

$$

RS

The office that day

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

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Jun 5, 9:04 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHOneida3 hr
Jun 5, 10:41 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHCassia, Power94 min
Jun 5, 1:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHCuster84 min
Jun 5, 1:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHCaribou45 min
Jun 5, 1:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBear Lake40 min
Jun 5, 2:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBear Lake, Bonneville, Caribou93 min
Jun 5, 2:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHClark, Custer111 min
Jun 5, 4:15 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPIHBlaine, Custer3 hr

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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.