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Red Flag Warning 24, NWS Pocatello, ID

September 13, 20205 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this red flag warning at Sep 13, 2020, 2:00 PM MDT for 5 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Sep 14, 2020, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 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: Sep 13, 2020, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 14, 2020, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Sep 14, 2020, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Butte County, ID, Custer County, ID, Idaho County, ID, Lemhi County, ID, Valley County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 194 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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 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 Sep 13, 1:20 PM MDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 1:20 PM MDT, 40 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
Sep 13, 2:21 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	PIH	Butte, Custer, Idaho, Lemhi, Valley	12 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Idaho, 2020 Every red flag warning 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.