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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Pocatello, ID

May 4, 202013 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this high wind watch at May 4, 2020, 2:34 PM MDT for 13 counties in Idaho. It took effect at May 6, 2020, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 2020, 2:34 PM MDT (20:34 UTC)
In effect from: May 6, 2020, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: May 5, 2020, 2:03 PM MDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Bannock County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Blaine County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Cassia County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Lincoln County, ID, Madison County, ID, Minidoka County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind watch went out at May 4, 2:19 AM MDT, 12 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 2:19 AM MDT, 12 hours 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 3:11 AM MDT	Frost Advisory	PIH	Bannock, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Cassia and 6 more	30 hr
May 4, 2:34 PM MDT	Freeze Warning	PIH	Bingham, Bonneville, Butte, Fremont, Jefferson, Madison	18 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Idaho, 2020 Every high wind watch in 2020

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.