Sustained 40 to 50 mph winds blew in Howe from 1045 am through 3 pm.
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.
The episode as NWS PIH wrote it up.
Sustained 40 to 50 mph winds blew in Howe from 1045 am through 3 pm.
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 Mar 28, 2:45 AM MST, 7 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 345 AM MDT WED MAR 28 2007 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. SOUTHERLY TRACK OF CLOSED H5 LOW HAS KEPT BRUNT OF HEAVY SNOWFALL TO SOUTH AND WEST OVERNIGHT AND WITH THIS WILL CANCEL ALL WARNINGS THIS MORNING. MODEL DIFFERENCES CONTINUE WITH NAM COMPLETELY DRY FOR THE MOST PART AND GFS KEEPING PRECIPITATION ACROSS SOUTHEAST ZONES INCLUDING SNAKE PLAIN. CURRENT RADAR LOOP AT 330 AM SHOWING LITTLE PRECIPITATION ANYWHERE WITH MOST SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL IN EASTERN PARTS OF ZONE 22. SOME LIGHT ECHOES DEVELOPING IN SNAKE PLAIN WITH HINT OF WEAK CONVERGENCE WITH H7 WINDS TURNING NORTHERLY FINALLY. OVERALL WITH LACK OF ACCUMULATION OVERNIGHT THINK ANY ACCUMULATIONS TODAY WILL BE FAIRLY LIGHT. KEPT 2 TO 4 INCHES IN EASTERN HIGHLANDS BUT WELL UNDER WARNING AMOUNTS I THINK. FOR NOW KEPT HIGH POPS IN EASTERN HIGHLANDS AND SNAKE PLAIN THIS MORNING AND WITH EXPECTED NORTHEASTERLY TRACK OF H5 LOW TODAY KEPT POPS GOING IN EASTERN HIGHLANDS THROUGH TONIGHT WITH LIGHT SNOW AMOUNTS. MODELS DIFFER IN MOVING H5 LOW. NAM MUCH QUICKER THURSDAY MOVING IT INTO EASTERN WYOMING BY 00Z FRIDAY WHILE GFS HOLDS IN EASTERN UTAH BY 00Z FRIDAY. THUS GFS HOLDS ONTO CLOUDS AND MOISTURE MUCH LONGER THAN NAM THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY. FOR NOW KEPT ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE PRECIP IN EASTERN HIGHLANDS THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY WITH DRY CONDITIONS ELSEWHERE. WITH NORTHERLY FLOW ON BACKSIDE OF UPPER LOW WILL BE QUITE COLD WITH TEMPERATURES WELL BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THURSDAY WITH A WARMING TREND STARTING FRIDAY WITH TEMPERATURES BACK CLOSE TO SEASONAL NORMS. DESPITE VERY TIGHT SURFACE GRADIENT WINDS HAVE REMAINED LIGHT OVERNIGHT IN SNAKE PLAIN WELL UNDER 10 KNOTS. NORTHERLY WINDS HAVE INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY OVER INL SITES NOW MORE INDICATION OF POSSIBLE CONVERGENCE SETTING UP IN SNAKE PLAIN AND HOPEFULLY WINDS WILL PICK UP LATER THIS MORNING. HARD TO FATHOM WHY THIS STORM PRODUCED SO LITTLE SO FAR IN SE IDAHO. GK .LONG TERM...SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. GFS-EURO-ENSEMBLE MODELS IN REASONABLY GOOD AGREEMENT ON TRANSITION TO FLAT ZONAL FLOW PATTERN FOR FIRST HALF OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD. ONLY ONE H5 SHORTWAVE TROF...ARRIVING SUNDAY...IS EXPECTED TO PASS THRU CWA BRINGING -RA TO VALLEYS AND -SN TO HIGHER TERRAIN. THIS SYSTEM MOVES DOWNSTREAM BY MONDAY AND H5 RIDGE BEGINS TO AMPLIFY WITH RIDGE AXIS OVER CWA ON WEDNESDAY. WITH ZONAL FLOW BRINGING IN MILD PACIFIC AIRMASS...TEMPS SHOULD STAY CLOSE TO CLIMO VALUES...THOUGH SLIGHTLY COOLER BEHIND THE TROF ON SUNDAY...AND THEN WARMING TO 6-8 DEG ABOVE CLIMO BY TUES. WARANAUSKAS && .AVIATION...STATIONARY LOW PRESSURE AREA OVER WEST CENTRAL UTAH WILL CONTINUE TO PULL BANDS OF MID LEVEL MOISTURE OVER SOUTHEAST IDAHO THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON. WITH MOST OF THE LOWS DYNAMICS DIMINISHING...EXPECTED WINTER STORM SITUATION WILL NOT MATERIALIZE TODAY. INSTEAD...REGION WILL SEE MVFR TO VFR CIGS AND SOME ISOLATED -SHSN ALONG ALL LOCAL TWEB ROUTES. PATCHY IFR CIGS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE PARTICULARLY IN HIGHER TERRAIN LOCATIONS. AS UTAH LOW MOVES EAST...ASSOCIATED PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL CREATE 25-30 KT NORTHWEST WINDS SNAKE PLAIN SITES THIS AFTERNOON. SHOULD TREND TO ALL VFR CONDITIONS BY THIS EVENING WITH SOME MVFR CIGS VCNTY EASTERN HIGHLANDS UNTIL LATE WED NIGHT. WARANAUSKAS && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 500 AM MDT WED MAR 28 2007 IDZ017>025-031-032-291200- EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY-SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS-UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS- UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN- SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-CARIBOU HIGHLANDS- CACHE VALLEY/IDAHO PORTION-WASATCH MOUNTAINS/IDAHO PORTION- BIG AND LITTLE WOOD RIVER REGION-LOST RIVER/PAHSIMEROI- 500 AM MDT WED MAR 28 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LIGHT SNOW IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN HIGHLANDS WITH 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WE ASK TRAINED SPOTTERS AND CITIZENS TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO. THESE CONDITIONS MAY INCLUDE HAIL...TORNADOES...STRONG WIND...DUST STORMS...SNOWFALL... EXTREME COLD TEMPERATURES...FREEZING RAIN OR HEAVY RAIN...DENSE FOG...AND FLOODING OR ICE JAMS. INFORMATION ABOUT THESE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS SHOULD BE CALLED INTO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN POCATELLO USING THE 1-800 SEVERE WEATHER HOTLINE...OR 208-233-0834.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The city of Howe reported sustained wind speeds of 40 to 50 mph vrom 1030 am through 3 pm.
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