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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Boise, ID
NWS Boise, ID issued this tornado warning at Sep 4, 1995, 3:15 PM MDT for Owyhee County, Idaho. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 4, 1995, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 1995, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boise, ID
- Area
- Whole counties
County Owyhee County, ID
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2284 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBOI 042119 COR TORBOI IDC073-042200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 315 PM MDT MON SEP 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BOISE ID HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST IDAHO ...SOUTHWESTERN OWYHEE COUNTY AT 313 PM MDT BOISE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JUNIPER MOUNTAIN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. DEVOIR/GERBER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Sep 4, 2:20 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
IDZ001-002-005-006-ORZ012-042115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 220 PM MDT (120 PM PDT) MON SEP 4 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST IDAHO... AT 214 PM MDT BOISE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL NEWLY FORMED THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST MALHEUR AND SOUTHWEST OWYHEE COUNTIES. ALTHOUGH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER REMOTE LAND AREAS... THEY ARE LIKELY TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND GAIN STRENGTH AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON. HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE ALL POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. PERSONS ENJOYING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ON THIS LABOR DAY IN SOUTHEAST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST IDAHO SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTER AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THREATENING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCE FOR UPDATES. DEVOIR
Special weather statement, Sep 4, 2:56 PM MDT, 19 minutes before
IDZ001-002-005-006-ORZ012-042115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 220 PM MDT (120 PM PDT) MON SEP 4 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST IDAHO... AT 214 PM MDT BOISE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL NEWLY FORMED THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST MALHEUR AND SOUTHWEST OWYHEE COUNTIES. ALTHOUGH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER REMOTE LAND AREAS... THEY ARE LIKELY TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND GAIN STRENGTH AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON. HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE ALL POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. PERSONS ENJOYING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ON THIS LABOR DAY IN SOUTHEAST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST IDAHO SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTER AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THREATENING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCE FOR UPDATES. DEVOIR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boise, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 1:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOI | Owyhee | 65 min |
| Sep 4, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOI | Owyhee | 62 min |
| Sep 4, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOI | Owyhee | 59 min |
| Sep 4, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOI | Owyhee | 59 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.