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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Pocatello, ID

September 6, 2019Blaine County, Butte County, Custer County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this flash flood watch at Sep 6, 2019, 11:45 AM MDT for Blaine County, Butte County, Custer County, Idaho. It took effect at Sep 6, 2019, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 6, 2019, 11:45 AM MDT (17:45 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 6, 2019, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired
Sep 6, 2019, 4:33 PM MDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Blaine County, ID, Butte County, ID, Custer County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 326 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2019-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 83 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2019-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
83 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Sep 6, 3:05 AM MDT, 8 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 3:05 AM MDT, 8 hours 40 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 5, 9:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHPower41 min
Sep 6, 2:23 AM MDTRed Flag WarningPIHBannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, Boise, Bonneville and 19 more16 hr
Sep 6, 1:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBear Lake42 min
Sep 6, 2:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBlaine54 min
Sep 6, 2:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHCuster64 min
Sep 6, 2:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHCassia, Minidoka40 min
Sep 6, 2:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBear Lake42 min
Sep 6, 3:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHButte, Power49 min
Sep 6, 3:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHOneida44 min
Sep 6, 5:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHClark, Fremont56 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Idaho, 2019Every flash flood watch in 2019

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.