Heavy rains flooded several streets in Pocatello including Alameda.
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Heavy rains flooded several streets in Pocatello including Alameda.
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 11, 1:08 PM MST, 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 208 PM MDT FRI JUL 11 2014 .SHORT TERM...THIS AFTERNOONS MAIN IMPACT WILL BE HEAVY RAIN IN SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM CELLS. BASED ON MORNINGS UPPER AIR SOUNDINGS THE PRECIPITABLE WATER AMOUNTS RANGE UP TO 1.25 INCHES. INITIAL RADAR ESTIMATES THAT SOME OF THE SLOWER MOVING STORMS SO FAR HAVE PRODUCED UP TO .75 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE LESS THAN 1 HOUR. DUE TO THIS HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT AND SLOW MOVEMENT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN LOCATIONS OF IDAHO. WIND GUST POTENTIAL FOR THE STORMS NEARS 45 TO 50 MPH WHICH COMBINED WITH HIGH FREEZING LEVEL SHOULD LIMIT THE SEVERE POTENTIAL. SATURDAY WE ARE EXPECTING ANOTHER ROUND OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH LIGHT UPPER LEVEL WINDS MAY PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN FOR IMPACT CONCERNS. .LONG TERM...RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES IN ON SUNDAY WITH WARMING TEMPERATURES BUT A WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCE SLIDES BY TO THE NORTH OF US ON MONDAY INTO TUESDAY WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ALONG THE IDAHO / MONTANA BORDER. NORTHWEST FLOW AFTERWARDS KEEPS US WARM AND DRY UNTIL FRIDAY. TWO LONG RANGE MODELS HINTING AT TROUGH DEVELOPING BUT STRENGTH AND POSITION LIMIT CONFIDENCE AT THIS POINT SO JUST PLACING CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS AT THIS POINT. PRESTON && .AVIATION...EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY. WILL HAVE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AS WELL AS SATURDAY. HAVE VICINITY THUNDERSTORMS AT ALL 4 TAF SITES THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. WILL HAVE WIND GUSTS FROM THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW BUT OTHER THAN THAT NOT EXPECTING STRONG WINDS THROUGH SATURDAY. GK && .FIRE WEATHER...EXPECT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED WET THUNDERSTORMS TODAY ACROSS THE DISTRICT. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ZONES 475 AND 476 DEWPOINTS ARE VERY ELEVATED AND EXPECT RAIN WHERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR. FLOOD WATCHES HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE CHUNK OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF THE DISTRICT WHERE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR THIS EVENING. EXPECT MORE OF THE SAME CONDITIONS SATURDAY WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING. EXPECT DRIER CONDITIONS SUNDAY UNDER A STRENGTHENING UPPER LEVEL RIDGE. GK && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING IDZ022>025. &&
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
1235 PM MDT FRI JUL 11 2014
IDZ022>025-111915-
BEAR LAKE ID-CARIBOU ID-ONEIDA ID-POWER ID-CASSIA ID-BANNOCK
ID-FRANKLIN ID-
1235 PM MDT FRI JUL 11 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
CASSIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO
FRANKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BANNOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
SOUTHERN POWER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
ONEIDA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
CARIBOU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BEAR LAKE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
UNTIL 115 PM MDT
AT 1227 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST IDAHO. THE
STRONGEST CELL WAS 20 MILES EAST OF SODA SPRINGS NEAR THE SMOKEY
CANYON AREA. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT OF STORMS THIS AFTERNOON MAY
PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN UP TO 1 INCH IN AN HOUR. LOCALIZED FLASH
FLOODING IS POSSIBLE.
USE CAUTION NEAR ANY THUNDERSTORM. GET INDOORS OR INTO A VEHICLE TO
AVOID THE FREQUENT LIGHTNING. DO NOT TRAVEL THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 4204 11422 4246 11349 4293 11204 4299 11111
4203 11107
TIME...MOT...LOC 1830Z 226DEG 5KT 4265 11127
PRESTONThe Pocatello radar (KSFX), 33 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:28 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains flooded several streets in Pocatello including Alameda.
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