Strong winds occurred on the 29th in the Arc0-Mud Lake Desert.
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Strong winds occurred on the 29th in the Arc0-Mud Lake Desert.
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 May 29, 2:04 AM MST, 10 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Pocatello ID 304 AM MDT Wed May 29 2024 .SHORT TERM...Today and Thursday Early morning satellite imagery shows an upper level trough in place across the Pacific NW. Clouds, showers and a few isolated thunderstorms are moving through the region early this morning with some of the showers producing gusty winds in the 35-45 mph range. As we progress through the day, expecting some increased coverage of showers and storms, mainly across the eastern half of the forecast area with the highest PoPs focused in the eastern highlands and up around Island Park. Precipitation will likely taper off by late evening. Winds will be a concern today with the tightening pressure gradient and a Wind Advisory continues across the Snake Plain, Magic Valley and into the Arco Desert. Expecting sustained winds in the 25- 35 mph with gusts in the 40-50 mph range, highest likely across the Arco Desert. Temperatures today will be noticeably cooler as colder air moves into the region this morning. Daytime highs will be some 15-20 degrees cooler than yesterday which equates to mid and upper 60s for highs in the valleys with upper 50s to lower 60s in the mountains zones. Overnight lows tonight look cold enough to support the issuance of a Frost Advisory in the upper Snake, Arco Desert and down towards Shoshone. As we get into Thursday, winds will lessen (although remain a touch breezy) but skies will clear but precip should be hard to come by. Despite ample sunshine, temperatures will remain on the cooler side of normal with highs again only in the 50s and 60s. Have no fear though, a quick warmup is expected Friday and into the weekend. McKaughan .LONG TERM...Friday through next Wednesday. Our northwest flow aloft on Friday begins to loosen its grip. This will help decrease our wind gusts to around 20 mph for Friday afternoon and increase our highs to the upper 60s and low to mid 70s in the valley locations and low to mid 60s in the mountains. Weak ridging pass over us on Saturday followed quickly but a weak shortwave late Saturday into Sunday to bring back a small precip chance for the weekend. Ensemble cluster anomalies are split nearly 50/50 on whether we are under the influence of weak troughing versus weak ridging, so will keep with the NBM PoPs of about 20 to 30 percent in the higher elevations of the Central Mountains and Eastern Highlands for the weekend. This won't temper our highs at all on Saturday as we push into the 70s for almost everyone and low to mid 80s in the eastern Magic Valley and lower Snake Plain. However, it will cool us back down about 5 to 10 degrees for Sunday afternoon. Look for an increase in wind gusts with this, too, in the 25 to 35 mph range both afternoons, but especially on Sunday. These afternoon wind gusts will continue on Monday and Tuesday, as will the highs in the 70s both afternoons. The 50/50 ensemble cluster split continues for Monday and Tuesday with the potential arrival of more troughing over our area. The ECMWF is on board while the GFS keeps the moisture in parts of the Central Mountains and just farther north in general. After that, zonal flow solidly takes over as the dominant weather pattern and the heat settles in over the area. AMM && .AVIATION... Winds will be the biggest concern today for anyone with aviation interests. Expecting SW winds in the 20 to 30 knot range throughout much of the day at KBYI, KPIH, and KIDA. KSUN and KDIJ will also be breezy but not quite as high. Precipitation this morning will continue to move east across the region and the best chances today will be focused closer to KDIJ but still expecting enough precip potential around KPIH, KIDA to maintain VCSH for a good portion of the day. KSUN and KBYI will see VCSH wording removed a bit earlier in the day. Outside of any precipitation, VFR conditions are likely to prevail. McKaughan && .FIRE WEATHER... A cold front moving through today will bring a mix of wet and dry thunderstorms across most of eastern Idaho. The chance for wet thunderstorms increases the farther north you go with a 50 percent chance of 24-hour QPF greater than 0.1 inches in Stanley, a 70 percent chance of the same near Spencer, and a general 40 to 60 percent chance of the same for areas north and east of Idaho Falls. The wind will also be gusting near 45 mph through the eastern Magic Valley and Snake Plain today outside of any thunderstorm outflows. With shower and thunderstorm outflows, gusts could be closer to 50 to 55 mph. We've already seen gusts around 45 mph out of meager looking showers on radar early this morning. Wind gusts won't be as strong on Thursday and Friday, but will still be in the 20 to 25 mph range. Thanks to the cold front, temperatures will be some 10 to 20 degrees cooler today with highs in the 60s for most with highs on Thursday being nearly a repeat of today. Min RHs will bottom out today around the 20 percent mark and stay in the teens and 20s Thursday through Saturday. AMM && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Wind Advisory from 6 AM this morning to 9 PM MDT this evening for IDZ051>055. Frost Advisory from 3 AM to 9 AM MDT Thursday for IDZ051>053. &&
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Two 65 mph wind gusts were measured at Tom Cat Summit ITD mesonet and The INL Puzzle ITD site. A 60 mph gust was measured at the Rover mesonet site.
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