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Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this red flag warning at Aug 17, 2023, 9:12 AM MDT for Cassia County, Twin Falls County, Idaho. It took effect at Aug 17, 2023, 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
- Aug 17, 2023, 9:12 AM MDT (15:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 17, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2023, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
Counties Cassia County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:16 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2434 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 17, 2:53 AM MDT, 6 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 2:53 AM MDT, 6 hours 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 1:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Minidoka | 23 min |
| Aug 17, 2:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Power | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 3:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Bannock, Power | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:44 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Power | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bannock | 22 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.