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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2022, 3:05 PM MDT for 5 counties in Idaho. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2022, 3:05 PM MDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2022, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bingham County, ID, Blaine County, ID, Cassia County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 13, 3:51 AM MDT, 11 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 3:51 AM MDT, 11 hours 14 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 2:44 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pocatello ID
244 PM MDT Wed Jul 13 2022
IDZ054-055-058-132115-
Eastern Magic Valley ID-Marsh and Arbon Highlands ID-
Lower Snake River Plain ID-
244 PM MDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Bannock, central Power and southwestern Bingham Counties through 315
PM MDT...
At 244 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles northwest of Neeley, moving northeast at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
American Falls, Neeley, American Falls Reservoir, Aberdeen,
Springfield, Pocatello Airport, Sterling and Massacre Rocks.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
If on or near American Falls Reservoir, get out of the water and
move indoors or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out
to 10 miles from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder,
you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter
now! Do not be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
&&
LAT...LON 4266 11302 4282 11321 4316 11275 4288 11247
TIME...MOT...LOC 2044Z 235DEG 47KT 4279 11300
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
DMHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2:16 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PIH | Cassia, Twin Falls | 19 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Power | 31 min |
| Jul 13, 3:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Power | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 3:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bingham | 33 min |
| Jul 13, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Power | 35 min |
| Jul 13, 4:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Butte | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bannock, Bingham | 30 min |
| Jul 13, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Bonneville, Caribou | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 5:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Teton | 25 min |
| Jul 13, 5:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Fremont | 39 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.