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River Flood Warning 24, NWS Pocatello, ID

June 28, 2017Custer County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this river flood warning at Jun 28, 2017, 8:46 AM MDT for Custer County, Idaho. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 2017, 8:46 AM MDT (14:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 2017, 7:50 AM MDT
In force
4 days
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Custer County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:47 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 river

Written for the forecast point Big Lost River below Mackay Reservoir (MAKI1). The gauge peaked at 4.50 ft at Jun 29, 2017, 1:00 AM MDT.

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Action stage
3.8 ft
Minor stage
4.3 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 13127000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Jun 28, 2:39 AM MDT, 6 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 2:39 AM MDT, 6 hours 7 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Pocatello ID
239 AM MDT Wed Jun 28 2017

.SHORT TERM...Today and Tonight. A few folks are probably waking
up to thunder, rain and wind to blow around the garbage cans. As
moisture and next wave drops southeast out of Canada into the
Northern Rockies, this trend of showers and thunderstorms will
remain. Stronger storms will likely initiate later today coming
off the central mountains moving into the Snake Plain, with
additional strong storms along and east of I-15 into this
evening. Gusty winds and hail are possible again along with
locally heavy rain. Parameters for isolated severe storms are
there again, but perhaps just a tad bit off from yesterday. SPC
has the highest potential around Island Park again, but we
wouldn't be shocked if a severe storm or two developed elsewhere
this afternoon. By tonight, activity will dwindle isolated
showers over the central mountains and the Upper Snake Plain and
Highlands. Similar to yesterday, outside of thunderstorms the
overall pattern is conducive to breezy conditions. Sustained winds
of 15-25mph with gusts to 35mph are forecast. We were close to
Lake Wind conditions on American Falls Reservoir and we should be
just high enough to be over the hump for that, so we are issuing a
LAKE WIND ADVISORY for American Falls Reservoir for this afternoon
until sunset. Our midweek cooldown continues with 70s/near 80 in
the valleys and 50s/60s for the backcountry. Keyes

.LONG TERM...Thursday through next Wednesday. As that wave keeps
dropping southeast through tomorrow, a few showers and storms are
possible around Island Park. Otherwise, it's dry and we will be
dry everywhere through Saturday morning. A fast moving storm will
kick off isolated storms over the central mountains and Upper
Snake Highlands in the afternoon and evening hours. After that,
we're back to dry and warmer heading into the Fourth of July. It
will be breezy each day into early next week as well. Keyes

&&

.AVIATION...Embedded short-wave feature rotating into the
base of a Canadian trough early this morning with attending
nocturnal convection advancing through SE Idaho. Numerical models
show additional thunderstorm activity sweeping through the CNTRL
mountains late this morning and into the Island Park region by
around noon with trailing convection firing across the SE mountains
later in the afternoon. For now, KSUN may be impacted with the first
wave late this morning with KIDA and KDIJ this afternoon and early
evening. Main impact here will be gusty outflow winds with
thunderstorms near terminals with perhaps a slight chance of
temporary MVFR VIS/CIG restrictions if a cell happens to pass
directly over the terminal. Huston

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...A low pressure trough will sweep through the region
today along with an ill defined surface front and scattered
thunderstorms.  The thunderstorms are expected to impact primarily
the CNTRL and NE mountains early today and then perhaps the SE
mountains later this afternoon. Gusty winds are expected throughout
SE Idaho this afternoon however the only place with low enough
humidity to support a Red Flag is zone 425 (Shoshone area). We will
also highlight the gusty winds in the remaining zones. Temperatures
bottom out Thursday and begin to warm through the weekend and early
next week as a ridge of high pressure builds over the region. One
passing system may bring a threat of thunderstorms and breezy
conditions to SE Idaho Saturday afternoon/eve otherwise mostly dry
conditions should prevail. Huston

&&

.HYDROLOGY...Additional light to moderate precipitation from
yesterday and today as well as very warm temperatures from yesterday
will help keep flows elevated if not slightly increasing by
tomorrow. However, cooler temperatures today and tomorrow will help
decrease flows by Friday and Saturday. For those areas with
remaining high elevation snow, which is the Central Mountains, Big
Lost and the Tetons, they will see increase flows next week after a
return of very warm temperatures this weekend into next week. Wyatt

&&

.PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
Red Flag Warning from noon today to 9 PM MDT this evening for
IDZ425.

Lake Wind Advisory from 1 PM this afternoon to 9 PM MDT this
evening for IDZ021.

&&

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:37 AM MDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 2:52 AM MDTRed Flag WarningPIHBlaine, Butte, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka, Power11 hr
Jun 28, 2:59 AM MDTLake Wind AdvisoryPIH18 hr
Jun 28, 12:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBlaine48 min
Jun 28, 1:17 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBear Lake43 min
Jun 28, 1:28 PM MDTRiver Flood AdvisoryPIHBonneville, Jefferson, Madison50 hr
Jun 28, 1:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBlaine, Minidoka, Power37 min
Jun 28, 2:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBear Lake51 min
Jun 28, 2:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBingham48 min
Jun 28, 3:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHBingham, Blaine, Power38 min
Jun 28, 4:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHCaribou51 min
Jun 28, 4:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHFremont48 min
Jun 28, 4:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBear Lake44 min
Jun 28, 5:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBingham37 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.