ngRx state update and Effects execution order

I have my own opinion on this question, but it's better to double check and know for sure. Thanks for paying attention and trying to help. Here it is:

Imagine that we're dispatching an action which triggers some state changes and also has some Effects attached to it. So our code has to do 2 things - change state and do some side effects. But what is the order of these tasks? Are we doing them synchronously? I believe that first, we change state and then do the side effect, but is there a possibility, that between these two tasks might happen something else? Like this: we change state, then get some response on HTTP request we did previously and handle it, then do the side effects.

[edit:] I've decided to add some code here. And also I simplified it a lot.

State:

export interface ApplicationState {
    loadingItemId: string;
    items: {[itemId: string]: ItemModel}
}

Actions:

export class FetchItemAction implements  Action {
  readonly type = 'FETCH_ITEM';
  constructor(public payload: string) {}
}

export class FetchItemSuccessAction implements  Action {
  readonly type = 'FETCH_ITEM_SUCCESS';
  constructor(public payload: ItemModel) {}
}

Reducer:

export function reducer(state: ApplicationState, action: any) {
    const newState = _.cloneDeep(state);
    switch(action.type) {
        case 'FETCH_ITEM':
            newState.loadingItemId = action.payload;
            return newState;
        case 'FETCH_ITEM_SUCCESS':
            newState.items[newState.loadingItemId] = action.payload;
            newState.loadingItemId = null;
            return newState;
        default:
            return state;
    }
}

Effect:

@Effect()
  FetchItemAction$: Observable<Action> = this.actions$
    .ofType('FETCH_ITEM')
    .switchMap((action: FetchItemAction) => this.httpService.fetchItem(action.payload))
    .map((item: ItemModel) => new FetchItemSuccessAction(item));

And this is how we dispatch FetchItemAction:

export class ItemComponent {
    item$: Observable<ItemModel>;
    itemId$: Observable<string>;

    constructor(private route: ActivatedRoute,
                private store: Store<ApplicationState>) {

        this.itemId$ = this.route.params.map(params => params.itemId);

        itemId$.subscribe(itemId => this.store.dispatch(new FetchItemAction(itemId)));

        this.item$ = this.store.select(state => state.items)
            .combineLatest(itemId$)
            .map(([items, itemId]: [{[itemId: string]: ItemModel}]) => items[itemId])
    }
}

Desired scenario:

User clicks on itemUrl_1;
we store itemId_1 as loadingItemId;
make the request_1;
user clicks on itemUrl_2;
we store itemId_2 as loadingItemId;
switchMap operator in our effect cancells previous request_1 and makes request_2;
get the item_2 in response;
store it under key itemId_2 and make loadingItemId = null.

Bad scenario:

User clicks on itemUrl_1;
we store itemId_1 as loadingItemId;
make the request_1;
user clicks on itemUrl_2;
we store itemId_2 as loadingItemId;  
we receive the response_1 before we made the new request_2 but after loadingItemId changed;
we store the item_1 from the response_1 under the key itemId_2;
make loadingItemId = null;
only here our effect works and we make request_2;
get item_2 in the response_2;
try to store it under key null and get an error

So the question is simply if the bad scenario can actually happen or not?