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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this special weather statement at Sep 29, 2016, 2:13 PM MDT for Bonneville County, Caribou County, Teton County, Idaho. It was in force for 62 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
- Sep 29, 2016, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2016, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
Counties Bonneville County, ID, Caribou County, ID, Teton County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 2365 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
172
WWUS85 KPIH 292013
SPSPIH
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
213 PM MDT THU SEP 29 2016
IDZ019>021-023-292115-
LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN ID-UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN ID-
UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS ID-CARIBOU HIGHLANDS ID-
213 PM MDT THU SEP 29 2016
...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE EASTERN HIGHLANDS THROUGH 300 PM
MDT...
AT 208 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS
SOUTHEAST OF IDAHO FALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
BRIEF MODERATE RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST TOWARD
DRIGGS...PALISADES RESERVOIR AND BONE THROUGH 300 PM MDT.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DRIGGS...SWAN VALLEY...PALISADES RESERVOIR...BLACKFOOT RESERVOIR...
RIRIE RESERVOIR...WAYAN...AMMON...VICTOR...RIRIE...IRWIN...
CHESTERFIELD...BONE...HENRY...CUTTHROAT TROUT CAMPGROUND...
TRAIL CREEK CAMPGROUND...HEISE...SMOKEY CANYON MINE...
MILL CANYON CAMPGROUND...GRAYS LAKE AND DIAMOND CREEK CAMPGROUND.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
&&
LAT...LON 4261 11105 4282 11186 4330 11208 4368 11180
4380 11118 4367 11104
TIME...MOT...LOC 2008Z 214DEG 17KT 4335 11197 4343 11155 4301 11112
$$
HUSTONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 11:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Power | 79 min |
| Sep 29, 3:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Custer | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.