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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Pocatello, ID

July 26, 202424 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this red flag warning at Jul 26, 2024, 2:29 PM MDT for 24 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Jul 27, 2024, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 16 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: Jul 26, 2024, 2:29 PM MDT (20:29 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 27, 2024, 6:00 AM MDT
Expired: Jul 27, 2024, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID

All 24 counties

Bannock County, ID, Bear Lake County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Blaine County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Caribou County, ID, Cassia County, ID, Clark County, ID, Custer County, ID, Franklin County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Idaho County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Jerome County, ID, Lemhi County, ID, Lincoln County, ID, Madison County, ID, Minidoka County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID, Teton County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID, Valley County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 304 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -210 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 26, 1:54 AM MDT, 12 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 1:54 AM MDT, 12 hours 35 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
Jul 25, 6:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bingham	29 min
Jul 25, 6:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Blaine	34 min
Jul 25, 6:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bannock	28 min
Jul 25, 6:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bingham, Butte, Jefferson	40 min
Jul 25, 6:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bannock, Oneida	46 min
Jul 25, 7:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bear Lake, Caribou, Franklin	60 min
Jul 26, 3:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Caribou	44 min
Jul 26, 4:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bonneville	51 min
Jul 26, 4:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Caribou	47 min
Jul 26, 5:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PIH	Bonneville, Caribou	26 min

Nearby

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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.