Thunderstorm Wind, Bonneville
- When
- June 15, 4:20 PM MST to 4:25 PM MST
- Where
- Bonneville County, 4 mi SW of Idaho Falls
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.450, -112.083
Damaging Wind in Idaho, June 15, 2002
5 inch tree branches snapped off trees.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS PIH wrote it up.
1.5 inch tree branches snapped off trees.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 15, 1:40 PM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 1:40 PM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
SOUTHEAST IDAHO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 240 PM MDT SAT JUN 15 2002 LATEST H2O SATIMG SHOWING DEVELOPING LOW OVER THE ERN PAC NEAR 44/138 WITH A DOWNSTREAM RIDGE CENTERED OVER WRN IDAHO. SOME HINT OF WEAK S/WV FEATURES EMBEDDED IN SW FLOW MOVING THROUGH NW NEVADA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS SUPPORTED BY 12Z ETA/AVN SOLUTIONS WHICH ADVECT WEAK S/WV OVER FORECAST AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. WILL COVER PASSAGE WITH CHANCE/SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FAVORING MOUNTAINS. RIDGE BEGINS TO MIGRATE EAST OVER FORECAST AREA SUNDAY AS PAC LOW MOVES CLOSER TO WASHINGTON/BC COAST. BOTH ETA/AVN DEVOID OF ANY SIGNIFICANT S/WV ACTIVITY TO TRIGGER CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT SO WILL LEAVE FORECAST MOSTLY DRY FOR NOW. FIRST SIGNIFICANT S/WV EJECTS FROM LOW AND PASSES THROUGH EXTREME NRN IDAHO SUNDAY NIGHT WITH BREAK DOWN OF H5 RIDGE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SURFACE FRONTAL FEATURE AND CONVECTION OVER THE SRN PANHANDLE. ETA PAINTING BULK OF PCPN JUST NORTH OF OUR FORECAST AREA WHILE AVN A BIT FURTHER SOUTH. WILL COVER EVENT WITH SLIGHT CHANCE WORDING FOR NOW. REMAINDER OF PAC TROUGH MOVES INLAND MONDAY/MONDAY NIGHT WITH BROAD AREA OF PCPN SPREADING EAST ACROSS PAC NW STATES. WILL INTRODUCE CHANCE/SLIGHT CHANCE PCPN TO CNTRL MOUNTAIN ZONES LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND THEN GOOD PORTION OF FORECAST AREA TUESDAY AS COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH REGION. IN THE EXTENDED FOR WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...MRF/ECMWF IN GENERAL AGREEMENT THAT DRY WEST FLOW WILL PREVAIL WEDNESDAY AS PAC TROUGH MOVES EAST ACROSS CNTRL CANADA. FLOW BEGINS TO BUCKLE THUR/FRI AS SHALLOW PAC TROUGH MOVES INTO WASHINGTON/OREGON COASTAL WATERS FOR A DRY SW FLOW ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. PAC TROUGH SHIFTS INTO ERN WASHINGTON/OREGON SATURDAY WITH AN ASSOCIATED SURFACE FRONT AND PCPN SPREADING INTO THE CNTRL MOUNTAINS. HUSTON .KSFX...OPERATIONAL...VCP 32. BYI 56/92/58/85 0000 .PIH...NONE. PIH UU 050/090 054/085 053 05100
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Surf in New York, June 15, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Texas, June 15 to 16, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, June 15, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 15, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, June 15, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 15 to 16, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 15 to 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 15 to 16, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 15, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 15, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 15, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, June 15, 2002
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5297253.