It looks like our current Mountain Home Police Chief is moving on to greener pastures. There is opening for John Walter’s job posted on the City of Mountain Home website.
http://www.mountain-home.us/MTNHOME/Employment_Opportunities.html
It will be weird not seeing this quiet man at the City Council Meetings in the future! I wish John good luck where ever he is heading.
Tornado Spotted Near Steele Mountain?
On Monday, June 6th, 2011 while I was out and about in Mountain Home, I looked south and saw a pretty mean looking thunderstorm in the distance. Being an old weather forecaster and lame tornado chaser, this cloud immediately struck me as a “non-Idaho” Midwestern type thunderstorm.
It turns out this cell or a cell spun off of this storm produced some severe weather as it tracked northward through Elmore County. The following are “Local Storm Reports” from the National Weather Service website.
0300 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 4 SW CENTERVILLE 43.89N 115.94W
06/06/2011 BOISE ID UNKNOWN
FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTED HALFWAY BETWEEN TRINITY AND STEEL
MOUNTAIN. THIS WAS IN APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF WHERE A
TORNADO WARNING WAS IN EFFECT.
0240 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 SSW HILL CITY 43.26N 115.09W
06/06/2011 ELMORE ID NWS STORM SURVEY
SHINGLES WERE PEALED FROM THE ROOF OF A HOUSE AND TWO
TREES WITHIN A GROVE OF ASPENS WERE BLOWN DOWN. TIME
ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.
0230 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 3 S HILL CITY 43.25N 115.05W
06/06/2011 CAMAS ID UNKNOWN
REPORT OF A FUNNEL CLOUD DIPPING REPEATEDLY TOWARD THE
SURFACE BUT NO CONFIRMATION OF ROTATION ON THE GROUND.
PERSON WAS VIEWING FROM 3 MILES SOUTH OF CORRAL AND
LOOKING TO THE SOUTH OF HILL CITY AROUND 230 PM MDT.
Twin Falls Link: http://www.magicvalley.com/news/local/twin-falls/article_2f0a767b-0f8b-5189-a820-6236cfbb82f3.html
KBOI Link: http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/123264388.html
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