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Red Flag Warning 22, NWS Pocatello, ID

August 12, 202418 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this red flag warning at Aug 12, 2024, 12:41 PM MDT for 18 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Aug 13, 2024, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 11 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 12, 2024, 12:41 PM MDT (18:41 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 13, 2024, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired
Aug 13, 2024, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Bannock County, ID, Bear Lake County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Caribou County, ID, Clark County, ID, Custer County, ID, Franklin County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Idaho County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Lemhi County, ID, Madison County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID, Teton County, ID, Valley County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 320 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2024-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 45 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2024-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-229 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
310 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 Aug 12, 3:33 AM MDT, 9 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 3:33 AM MDT, 9 hours 8 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 1:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIHClark, Fremont, Jefferson18 min

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Idaho, 2024Every red flag warning in 2024

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.