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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2015, 4:53 PM MDT for Bonneville County, Caribou County, Idaho. It was in force for 22 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2015, 4:53 PM MDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2015, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bonneville County, ID, Caribou County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 5:04 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | Freedom, ID | PICTURE OF A FEW STONES AROUND 1 INCH. MOST WERE SMALLER. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 889 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
247
WFUS55 KPIH 152253
TORPIH
IDC019-029-152315-
/O.NEW.KPIH.TO.W.0003.150615T2253Z-150615T2315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
453 PM MDT MON JUN 15 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN CARIBOU COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO...
SOUTHEASTERN BONNEVILLE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO...
* UNTIL 515 PM MDT
* AT 452 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR FREEDOM...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF THAYNE...AND MOVING EAST AT
35 MPH.
IN ADDITION...PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS OVER 60 MPH ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM!
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FREEDOM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4289 11128 4307 11128 4309 11104 4287 11104
TIME...MOT...LOC 2252Z 271DEG 28KT 4299 11117
$$
JKEYES1 follow-up statement
934
WWUS55 KPIH 152311
SVSPIH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
511 PM MDT MON JUN 15 2015
IDC019-029-152320-
/O.EXP.KPIH.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-150615T2315Z/
CARIBOU ID-BONNEVILLE ID-
511 PM MDT MON JUN 15 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CARIBOU AND SOUTHEASTERN
BONNEVILLE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 515 PM MDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED INTO WESTERN
WYOMING...THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 4289 11128 4307 11128 4309 11104 4287 11104
TIME...MOT...LOC 2307Z 271DEG 28KT 4299 11117
$$
JKEYESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 11:39 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Caribou | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bingham | 87 min |
| Jun 15, 2:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Teton | 27 min |
| Jun 15, 2:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Fremont, Madison, Teton | 82 min |
| Jun 15, 2:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bonneville, Madison | 93 min |
| Jun 15, 2:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Bonneville, Caribou | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bingham, Bonneville, Caribou | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 3:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Cassia | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bonneville, Jefferson, Madison | 27 min |
| Jun 15, 4:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Bingham, Bonneville, Caribou | 42 min |
| Jun 15, 4:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bonneville, Jefferson, Madison, Teton | 56 min |
| Jun 15, 4:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Cassia, Oneida | 38 min |
| Jun 15, 4:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Caribou | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Blaine, Cassia, Power | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Cassia, Oneida, Power | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Caribou, Power | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bingham, Cassia, Power | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.