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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Boise, ID

April 30, 1997Ada County, Elmore County, Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1997, 10:18 PM MDT for Ada County, Elmore County, Idaho. It was in force for 42 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
Apr 30, 1997, 10:18 PM MDT (04:18 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 1997, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ada County, ID, Elmore County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

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

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

Local storm report, Apr 30, 5:43 PM MDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 9:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIAda, Canyon38 min
Apr 30, 9:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIAda40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

Sources

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