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Winter Storm Warning 7, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this winter storm warning at Feb 24, 2024, 1:46 PM MST for 12 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Feb 25, 2024, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for 24 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
- Feb 24, 2024, 1:46 PM MST (20:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 25, 2024, 11:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2024, 11:00 PM MST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
Counties Bear Lake County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Blaine County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Caribou County, ID, Clark County, ID, Custer County, ID, Franklin County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Madison County, ID, Teton County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 313 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
- 2271 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Feb 24, 1:38 PM MST, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 1:38 PM MST, 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 1:32 PM MST | High Wind Warning | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Cassia and 8 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:32 PM MST | Wind Advisory | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Caribou and 10 more | 51 hr |
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.