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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Boise, ID

May 3, 2003Payette County, Idaho; Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2003, 9:31 PM MDT for Payette County, Idaho; Malheur County, Oregon. It was in force for 29 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: May 3, 2003, 9:31 PM MDT (03:31 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2003, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Boise, ID
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Payette County, ID, Malheur County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 May 3, 8:54 PM MDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 8:54 PM MDT, 37 minutes before

SOUTHWEST IDAHO/SOUTHEAST OREGON AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE IDAHO
854 PM SAT MAY 03 2003

EARLY EVENING IR SAPIX SHOW CONVECTIVELY UNSTABLE CHARACTER OF AIR
MASS WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS STILL FIRING OVER OUR CWA. SINCE
01Z ACTIVITY HAS DECREASED EXCEPT FOR A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS
STILL GOING IN NRN MALHEUR COUNTY NEWD TO WASHINGTON COUNTY.
FURTHER WEST IN OREGON A N/S COLD FRONT IS RAPIDLY TAKING SHAPE AND
MOVING EAST.  FRONT EXPECTED TO WRN IDAHO BORDER 12Z AND TREASURE
VALLEY ABOUT SUNRISE...MAGIC VALLEY MID MORNING.  FRONT WILL BE
STRONG ENOUGH FOR THUNDERSTORMS EVEN IN THE MORNING. CURRENT
FORECASTS IN GOOD SHAPE...MAIN CONCERN IS CURRENT THUNDERSTORMS IN
MALHEUR COUNTY.

.BOI...NONE.

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 6:00 AM MDT, 15 hours 31 minutes before

IDZ011>016-028>030-ORZ061>064-041200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE IDAHO
600 AM MDT SAT MAY 3 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST IDAHO AND SOUTHEAST
OREGON.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oregon, 2003 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.