Alert archive / Idaho / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Boise, ID
NWS Boise, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1998, 4:14 PM MDT for Canyon County, Owyhee County, Idaho. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1998, 4:14 PM MDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1998, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boise, ID
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Canyon County, ID, Owyhee County, ID
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Oreana, ID | During the evening of July 10th a manufactured home was flipped over in the town of Oreana. One man inside the home was slightly injured. A NWS storm survey team determined that the damage was caused by an F0 tornado. The tornado was short lived and did no |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boise, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOI | Ada, Elmore | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.