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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Boise, ID

May 5, 1995Cassia County, Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1995, 12:49 PM MDT for Cassia County, Idaho. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1995, 12:49 PM MDT (18:49 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1995, 1:15 PM MDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID
Area
Whole counties

County Cassia County, ID

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 219 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 1995-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 1995-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-185 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 1:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOICassia, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka62 min
May 5, 2:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOILincoln, Minidoka63 min

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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.