Alert archive / Idaho / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Boise, ID
NWS Boise, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2002, 4:13 PM MDT for Canyon County, Owyhee County, Payette County, Idaho; Malheur County, Oregon. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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 14, 2002, 4:13 PM MDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2002, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boise, ID
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Canyon County, ID, Owyhee County, ID, Payette County, ID, Malheur County, OR
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:30 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Fruitland, ID | |
| Jul 14, 5:00 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 M | Parma, ID |
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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 14, 3:45 PM MDT, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:45 PM MDT, 28 minutes before
SOUTHWEST IDAHO/SOUTHEAST OREGON AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE IDAHO 345 PM MDT SUN JUL 14 2002 STRONG UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE CENTER SOUTHERN UT AND S/WV TROUGH OVER NORTHERN CA ON WATER VAPOR PICTURES ARE COMBINING TO CHANNEL MONSOONAL MOISTURE INTO CWFA THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. GOES SOUNDER SHOWING PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES JUST OVER 1 INCH SOUTHEAST ORE/ SOUTHWEST ID WITH LIS -2 TO -4. S/WV SUPPLYING NEEDED LIFT WITH SOME MID-LEVEL SHEAR FOR THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY SOUTHEAST ORE LIFTING NORTH. SPOTTER CALLS SHOWING HIGH-BASED WITH SOME WINDS, NONE YET SEVERE AS OF 21Z. THESE GUSTY THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE THIS EVENING INTO NORTHERN ZONES. AREA OF CONCERN IS CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT EAST CENTRAL NV LIFTING NORTH INTO SOUTH CENTRAL ID LATER TONIGHT. UPPER TROUGH CONTINUES NORTHEAST MON/TUE WITH SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW REMAINING OVER CWFA. MONSOONAL MOISTURE SHIFTS INTO EASTERN ID WITH SOME DRYING SOUTHEAST ORE ZONES MON/TUE. THIS ALSO ALLOWS SOME SLIGHT COOLING WITH TEMPS REMAINING JUST ABOVE SEASONAL LEVELS. UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE REMAINS OVER ROCKIES WITH SHALLOW TROUGH IN GULF OF ALASKA INTO MIDWEEK. PROGRESSIVE S/WVS MOVE ALONG CANADIAN BORDER WITH LITTLE AFFECT TO CWFA. SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW OVER CWFA WITH MONSOONAL MOISTURE REMAINING JUST TO THE EAST IN EASTERN ID, THOUGH THIS MOISTURE WILL NEED TO BE WATCHED. MRF TRIES TO SHIFT EASTERN GULF OF ALASKA TROUGH CLOSER TO NORTHWEST COAST SAT /SUN THOUGH 12Z AVN EXTENSION NOT AS DEEP WITH TROUGH. WILL KEEP DRY WEATHER IN EXTENDED FORECAST WITH TEMPS REMAINING NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THU-SUN. PARKER .BOI...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boise, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 11:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOI | Ada, Canyon, Gem, Payette | 56 min |
| Jul 13, 11:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOI | Boise, Elmore | 48 min |
| Jul 14, 12:09 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOI | Valley | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 4:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOI | Ada | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOI | Boise | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oregon, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.