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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Boise, ID

April 27, 1995Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1995, 4:45 PM MDT for Malheur County, Oregon. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 27, 1995, 4:45 PM MDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 1995, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID
Area
Whole counties

County Malheur County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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, Boise Airport, ID at 12:00Z on 1995-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Boise Airport, ID at 12:00Z on 1995-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBOI 272256 COR
SVRBOI
ORC045-272345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTION TO PDT
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID
345 PM PDT THU APR 27 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BOISE ID HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST OREGON

   ...MALHEUR COUNTY

A STORM SPOTTER IN BURNS OREGON REPORTED STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH. RADAR INDICATES THIS STORM IS ASSOCIATED WITH A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL MALHEUR COUNTY AND SHOULD BE
AFFECTING THE AROCK AND DANNER AREAS IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.



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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 3:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
IDZALL-272300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID
310 PM MST THU APR 27 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ACROSS IDAHO AND EASTERN OREGON...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED THROUGHOUT THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON.
LIGHTNING STRIKES HAVE BEEN DETECTED FROM SOUTHEAST OREGON ALL THE
WAY TO THE CENTRAL IDAHO MOUNTAINS.  RADAR ALSO INDICATES
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO.  WARM AFTERNOON
TEMPERATURES AND AN APPROACHING WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL ALLOW THE
THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING.  LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO
THE EARLY EVENING HOURS SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL
AND GUSTY WINDS...ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

PERSONS ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY
AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE LONG BEFORE ANY RAINFALL OCCURS...SO
HAVE A SAFETY PLAN AND ALLOW YOURSELF TIMdE TO REACH SHELTER BEFORE
LIGHTNING STRIKES.

.END...NWSFO BOISE...DLB
Local storm report, Apr 27, 4:37 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE IDAHO
435 PM MST THU APR 27 1995

FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE FOR WSO LEWISTON

1623 ELK CITY OBSERVER REPORTED GRAPE SIZE HAIL WITH THUNDERSTORM".

DLB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIMalheur60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oregon, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.