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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Boise, ID

August 26, 1996Canyon County, Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1996, 8:30 PM MDT for Canyon County, Idaho. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 26, 1996, 8:30 PM MDT (02:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 1996, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID
Area
Whole counties

County Canyon County, ID

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 369 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, Elko, NV at 00:00Z on 1996-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Elko, NV at 00:00Z on 1996-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3193 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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
Aug 26, 7:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOICanyon, Owyhee69 min
Aug 27, 1:40 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOIOwyhee65 min
Aug 27, 1:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIOwyhee65 min
Aug 27, 2:40 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOICanyon, Owyhee2 hr
Aug 27, 2:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOICanyon, Owyhee2 hr
Aug 26, 11:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIMalheur67 min
Aug 27, 2:20 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOIMalheur2 hr
Aug 27, 2:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIMalheur2 hr

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.