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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Boise, ID

July 7, 2002Canyon County, Owyhee County, Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2002, 12:05 PM MDT for Canyon County, Owyhee County, Idaho. It was in force for 25 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 7, 2002, 12:05 PM MDT (18:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2002, 12:30 PM MDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Canyon County, ID, Owyhee County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 7, 12:15 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 50 ENotus, IDA line of thunderstorms swept across Owyhee, Washington, Payette and Canyon counties. Several limbs were broken off trees and sheet metal was blown from a roof under construction.

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.

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.

NWS Boise, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 7, 10:00 AM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 10:00 AM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
SOUTHWEST IDAHO/SOUTHEAST OREGON AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE IDAHO
1000 AM MDT SUN JUL 07 2002

UPDATED SOME ZONES ALREADY THIS MORNING FOR A BIT STRONG WORDING FOR
THUNDERSTORMS.  MORNING SOUNDING VERY UNSTABLE BUT FOR THIS
AFTERNOON THERE WILL BE NO GOOD TRIGGER OTHER THAN AFTERNOON
HEATING.  THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THIS MORNING IS CENTERED AROUND A
VORT MAX AND THE NEW ETA MODEL MOVES THIS VORT MAX TO THE NORTH
NORTHEAST INTO THE NORTHERN ZONES BETWEEN 20Z AND 21Z.  THIS TIMING
ALSO NEAR MAX HEATING SO MAIN REASON FOR THE STRONGER WORDING IN
IDAHO ZONES 11 AND 13 AND OREGON ZONE 62.  REST OF THE ZONES LOOK
GOOD FOR TODAY AS SURFACE HEATING WILL HELP WITH THE THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY.  TONIGHT UPPER LEVEL LOW CONTINUES TO MOVE TO THE EAST
WITH ENOUGH DYNAMICS AHEAD OF THIS FOR CONTINUED THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY THROUGH THE NIGHT.  SHORT WAVE TO MOVE THROUGH THE STATE ON
MONDAY FOR DECREASING CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH
THE DAY.  ALLEN

.BOI...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 11:50 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIPayette, Washington40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.