Thunderstorm Wind, Power
- When
- June 3, 5:50 PM MST to 5:53 PM MST
- Where
- Power County, American Falls
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 42.783, -112.833
Irrigation pipe blown from storage rack.
Damaging Wind in Idaho, June 3, 2004
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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 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 3, 2:10 PM MST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:10 PM MST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 310 PM MDT THU JUN 3 2004 .DISCUSSION... LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING A BROAD FLAT RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL STATES WITH A DEEP LOW POSITIONED OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA. TWO DISTURBANCES WERE EVIDENT IN WATER VAPOR SATELLITE IMAGERY EJECTING FROM LOW INTO/ACROSS WESTERN STATES. FIRST WEAKER WAVE WAS LIFTING NE THROUGH SRN IDAHO SPARKING SOME HIGH BASED CONVECTION WHILE SECOND STRONGER WAVE WAS PUSHING THROUGH NRN CALIFORNIA. FIRST WAVE TO EXIT FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING SUSTAINING SOME WEAK CONVECTIONS. SECOND WAVE EXPECTED TO REACH SW IDAHO LATE TONIGHT (06-12Z) LIFTING NE THROUGH REGION FRIDAY (AVN ABOUT 6HRS SLOWER WITH PROGRESSION) SUSTAINING CONVECTION OVER REGION LATE TONIGHT AND THROUGH THE DAY FRIDAY. NEGATIVE TILT UPPER TROUGH SWINGS THROUGH PACIFIC NW STATES SATURDAY AS MAIN LOW APPROACHES BC COAST. GOOD PATTERN FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND BEST INSTABILITY AND DYNAMICS PLACE THAT POTENTIAL THREAT IN ERN WASHINGTON. WILL CONTINUE WITH SLIGHT CHANCE MENTION OF PRECIPITATION ACROSS NRN MOUNTAIN ZONES AS TROUGH BRUSHES REGION. LOW CONTINUES TO MIGRATE ESE SUNDAY AND MONDAY WITH BRUNT OF PRECIPITATION FALLING OVER NRN IDAHO/MONTANA AS WINDY CONDITIONS SPREAD ACROSS SRN IDAHO. THUS HAVE LIMITED PRECIPITATION POTENTIAL TO NRN ZONES AND BUMPED WINDS UPWARD SUNDAY AS DRY SURFACE FRONT SLIPS THROUGH REGION ALONG WITH 110KT 300MB JET. UPPER LOW GRADUALLY LIFTS NE INTO CNTRL CANADA MONDAY/TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK AS SECONDARY SHORT-WAVE ENERGY DIGS SE INTO NEVADA WITH A WEAK HANG-BACK LOW SPINNING UP OVER SW IDAHO. LOW EVENTUALLY LIFTS NE ACROSS FORECAST AREA LATE WEDNESDAY AS A DRY WEST FLOW AND WARMER TEMPERATURES RETURN TO THE REGION. HUSTON && .PIH WATCHES/WARNING/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 4:00 AM MST, 13 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 500 AM MDT THU JUN 3 2004 IDZ017>023-031-032-041200- EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY-BIG AND LITTLE WOOD RIVER REGION- SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS-LOST RIVER/PAHSIMEROI-UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS- UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN- SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-CARIBOU HIGHLANDS- 500 AM MDT THU JUN 3 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WE ASK ALL TRAINED SPOTTERS TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS. THIS INFORMATION SHOULD BE CALLED INTO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN POCATELLO USING THE 1-800 SEVERE WEATHER HOTLINE...OR OTHER STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 38 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:48 UTC.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Mexico, June 3, 2004
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 3, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 3, 2004
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 3, 2004
- Hail in Colorado, June 3, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 3, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 3, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 3, 2004
- Hail in Colorado, June 3, 2004
- Hail in South Dakota, June 3, 2004
- Hail in Nebraska, June 3, 2004
- Flooding in Iowa, June 3, 2004
More
Every storm in Idaho in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, June 2004
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: 5407664.