Alert archive / Idaho / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Boise, ID
NWS Boise, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2003, 2:50 PM MDT for Elmore County, Owyhee County, Idaho. It was in force for 25 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
- Jun 19, 2003, 2:50 PM MDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2003, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boise, ID
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Elmore County, ID, Owyhee County, ID
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -473 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 Jun 19, 2:30 PM MDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:30 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 6:00 AM MDT, 8 hours 50 minutes before
IDZ011>016-028>030-ORZ061>064-201200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE IDAHO 600 AM MDT THU JUN 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST IDAHO AND SOUTHEAST OREGON. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boise, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOI | Elmore | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.