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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Boise, ID

July 12, 1995Boise County, Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 1995, 2:15 PM MDT for Boise County, Idaho. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 1995, 2:15 PM MDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 1995, 3:15 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID
Area
Whole counties

County Boise County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 416 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2319 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Boise, ID issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 12, 4:00 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIAda43 min
Jul 12, 4:21 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIGem, Payette54 min
Jul 12, 4:21 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIBoise54 min
Jul 12, 5:02 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIValley58 min
Jul 12, 11:43 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIOwyhee62 min
Jul 12, 12:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIAda, Elmore, Owyhee55 min
Jul 12, 1:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIAda, Elmore49 min
Jul 12, 1:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIElmore, Owyhee46 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.