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Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this red flag warning at Jul 14, 2025, 8:05 AM MDT for 15 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Jul 14, 2025, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 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 14, 2025, 8:05 AM MDT (14:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 14, 2025, 2:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2025, 8:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
Counties Bingham County, ID, Blaine County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Cassia County, ID, Clark County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Jerome County, ID, Lincoln County, ID, Madison County, ID, Minidoka County, ID, Power County, ID, Teton County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:09 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 3903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 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 Jul 14, 5:30 AM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 5:30 AM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 1:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Butte | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 1:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Butte | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 3:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Jefferson | 45 min |
| Jul 14, 4:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 4:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Clark | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 4:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Clark, Fremont | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 5:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Fremont | 49 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.