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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2024, 3:59 PM MDT for Cassia County, Idaho. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 26, 2024, 3:59 PM MDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2024, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Cassia County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 Jun 26, 3:51 PM MDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:51 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 2:19 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pocatello ID
219 PM MDT Wed Jun 26 2024
IDZ056-057-262045-
Raft River Region ID-Southern Hills/Albion Mountains ID-
219 PM MDT Wed Jun 26 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT EAST CENTRAL CASSIA COUNTY
THROUGH 245 PM MDT...
At 219 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Elba, or 10 miles west of Malta, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts in excess of 45 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Malta, Elba, Mt Harrison, and Idahome.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 4216 11360 4233 11370 4253 11328 4228 11312
TIME...MOT...LOC 2019Z 244DEG 24KT 4228 11357
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...45 MPH
DMHSpecial weather statement, Jun 26, 2:44 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pocatello ID
244 PM MDT Wed Jun 26 2024
IDZ055>057-262115-
Eastern Magic Valley ID-Raft River Region ID-
Southern Hills/Albion Mountains ID-
244 PM MDT Wed Jun 26 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHWESTERN POWER AND EAST
CENTRAL CASSIA COUNTIES THROUGH 315 PM MDT...
At 243 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Malta, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts in excess of 45 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Malta and Idahome.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 4225 11341 4242 11351 4263 11304 4238 11289
TIME...MOT...LOC 2043Z 244DEG 28KT 4237 11337
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...45 MPH
AMMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 3:00 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | PIH | Bingham, Bonneville, Butte, Clark, Fremont, Jefferson and 1 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:33 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Bonneville, Butte, Clark, Fremont and 3 more | 32 hr |
| Jun 26, 2:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Cassia | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 2:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Cassia | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 4:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Caribou | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Cassia | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Blaine, Lincoln | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 4:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Custer | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 4:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Cassia | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 5:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Caribou | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 5:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 5:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Cassia | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 5:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Custer | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 5:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Custer | 57 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.