Farmers and ranchers in Custer County were declared by the USDA to qualify for natural disaster assistance due to crop damage from heavy August rains. Eastern Idaho barley crop damage was estimated at 64 million dollars with a portion of that in Custer County.
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The episode as NWS PIH wrote it up.
Farmers and ranchers in Custer County were declared by the USDA to qualify for natural disaster assistance due to crop damage from heavy August rains. Eastern Idaho barley crop damage was estimated at 64 million dollars with a portion of that in Custer County.
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 Jul 31, 8:17 PM MST, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 917 PM MDT THU JUL 31 2014 .UPDATE...CONVECTION CONTINUES MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ROUGHLY HAILEY TO ISLAND PARK. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES PUSHING DOWN THE SNAKE PLAIN KEEP FIRING A FEW SHOWERS MAINLY ALONG THE FOOTHILLS EAST OF INTERSTATE 15. BELIEVE MOST OF THIS SECONDARY CONVECTION WILL BE SHORT LIVED. HAVE DECREASED POPS OUTSIDE OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AFTER MIDNIGHT. NO OTHER CHANGES AT THIS TIME. DMH && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 205 PM MDT THU JUL 31 2014/ SHORT TERM...EXPECTING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING SINCE THERE IS LITTLE IN THE WAY OF FORCING OTHER THAN OROGRAPHIC LIFT...AND MUCH OF THAT SHOULD BE FOCUSED IN THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. THUNDERSTORMS IN THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AT LEAST SHOULD BE MORE ACTIVE FRIDAY WITH AN EMBEDDED WAVE OFF THE PACIFIC MOVING THROUGH OREGON AND NORTHERN IDAHO. MORE SUPPORT IS ALSO PRESENT IN THE EASTERN HIGHLANDS FROM BEAR LAKE TO PALISADES RESERVOIR. BOTH THE GFS AND NAM MODELS SUPPORT A LIMITED SURGE OF MONSOON MOISTURE MOVING NORTH FROM EASTERN NEVADA BY SATURDAY MORNING. EARLY MORNING TIMING OF OF A DISTURBANCE CROSSING CALIFORNIA TO IDAHO COULD BE A SET UP FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND LIGHTNING TO DEVELOP NEAR SUNRISE IN THE EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY. ACTIVITY THEN EXPANDS NORTH AND EAST THROUGH THE DAY. LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...BY SUNDAY...THE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE SHIFTS A LITTLE FURTHER EAST OVER MONTANA AND WYOMING WHICH SHOULD FOCUS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL...EASTERN AND UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS. THE GFS MODEL IN PARTICULAR BRINGS YET ANOTHER SURGE OF MONSOON MOISTURE TO IDAHO ON MONDAY. THEN MORE ZONAL FLOW OFF THE PACIFIC TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. RS AVIATION...MORE OF THE SAME EXPECTED. WE WILL SEE DAILY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. EXPECT VFR WEATHER EXCEPT WITH STRONGER STORMS WHERE THE POTENTIAL FOR REDUCED CEILINGS AND VISIBILITY DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL. GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. KEYES FIRE WEATHER...WE CAN EXPECT MORE OF THE SAME WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY ACROSS THE REGION. WE SHOULD SEE ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED STORMS TODAY AND FRIDAY...ALTHOUGH WE WILL BE VERY CLOSE TO SEEING SCATTERED STORMS IN SOME MOUNTAINOUS AREAS. FOR NOW...THAT WILL KEEP US OUT OF RED FLAG CONDITIONS FOR AREAS CURRENTLY WITH CRITICAL FUELS. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY MAY INDEED SEE HIGHER COVERAGE OF STORMS AREAWIDE DUE TO A SLIGHT INCREASE IN MONSOON MOISTURE AND A COUPLE OF STRONGER DISTURBANCES MOVING THROUGH. WE MAY NEED RED FLAG HEADLINES FOR ONE OR BOTH DAYS BASED ON THE CURRENT TRENDS. HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS. DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS PATTERN...WE ARE STILL DEALING WITH SOME UNCERTAINTY DAILY AS THE MODELS TEND TO NOT PICK UP SOME DETAILS UNTIL RIGHT BEFORE AN EVENT BEGINS. KEYES && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Farmers and ranchers in Custer County were declared by the USDA to qualify for natural disaster assistance due to crop damage from heavy August rains. Eastern Idaho barley crop damage was estimated at 64 million dollars with a portion of that in Custer County.
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