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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Pocatello, ID

September 7, 2025Caribou County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 2025, 2:33 PM MDT for Caribou County, Idaho. It was in force for 42 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: Sep 7, 2025, 2:33 PM MDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 2025, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Caribou County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Sep 7, 1:48 PM MDT, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 1:48 PM MDT, 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 7, 12:16 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pocatello ID
1216 PM MDT Sun Sep 7 2025

IDZ054-058-071845-
Marsh and Arbon Highlands ID-Lower Snake River Plain ID-
1216 PM MDT Sun Sep 7 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTH CENTRAL BANNOCK AND EAST
CENTRAL POWER COUNTIES THROUGH 1245 PM MDT...

At 1216 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Fort Hall Bannock Creek Lodge, or 8 miles southwest of Pocatello,
moving northeast at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Minor hail damage to outdoor objects is possible.

Locations impacted include...
Pocatello, Chubbuck, Inkom, Portneuf Gap, Fort Hall Bannock Creek
Lodge, and Mink Creek Pass.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 4266 11259 4283 11269 4301 11230 4276 11215
TIME...MOT...LOC 1816Z 245DEG 19KT 4278 11255

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH

DMH

Special weather statement, Sep 7, 1:59 PM MDT, 34 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pocatello ID
159 PM MDT Sun Sep 7 2025

IDZ054-058-072030-
Marsh and Arbon Highlands ID-Lower Snake River Plain ID-
159 PM MDT Sun Sep 7 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL BANNOCK AND EAST CENTRAL
POWER COUNTIES THROUGH 230 PM MDT...

At 159 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 11
miles east of Fort Hall Bannock Peak, or 14 miles west of McCammon,
moving northeast at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Minor hail damage to outdoor objects is possible.

Locations impacted include...
Eastern Pocatello, McCammon, Inkom, Portneuf Gap, and Mink Creek
Pass.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 4252 11249 4267 11264 4289 11235 4267 11213
TIME...MOT...LOC 1959Z 232DEG 16KT 4264 11249

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH

DMH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 7, 12:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bannock	29 min
Sep 7, 1:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Bannock	31 min
Sep 7, 2:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Butte	24 min
Sep 7, 2:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Cassia	38 min
Sep 7, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PIH	Butte, Custer	21 min
Sep 7, 3:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Clark	28 min
Sep 7, 4:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Power	32 min
Sep 7, 4:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Jefferson	51 min
Sep 7, 4:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Power	45 min
Sep 7, 5:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Power	38 min
Sep 7, 5:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PIH	Power	46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.