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Red Flag Warning 17, NWS Pocatello, ID

August 16, 20196 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this red flag warning at Aug 16, 2019, 3:11 AM MDT for 6 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Aug 16, 2019, 3:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 2019, 3:11 AM MDT (09:11 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 16, 2019, 3:00 PM MDT
Expired
Aug 16, 2019, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Blaine County, ID, Butte County, ID, Jerome County, ID, Lincoln County, ID, Minidoka County, ID, Power County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Aug 16, 2:44 AM MDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 2:44 AM MDT, 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 6:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHFremont35 min
Aug 16, 3:11 AM MDTFire Weather WatchPIHBingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Cassia, Clark and 9 more11 hr
Aug 16, 2:06 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPIHBingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Cassia, Clark and 9 more31 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Idaho, 2019Every red flag warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.