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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 440

May 30, 200316 counties in Idaho

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 2003, 9:00 AM MDT for 16 counties in Idaho. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2003, 9:00 AM MDT (15:00 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2003, 2:00 PM MDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Ada County, ID, Blaine County, ID, Boise County, ID, Camas County, ID, Canyon County, ID, Cassia County, ID, Custer County, ID, Elmore County, ID, Gem County, ID, Gooding County, ID, Jerome County, ID, Lincoln County, ID, Minidoka County, ID, Owyhee County, ID, Payette County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:59 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.

Warnings issued inside it

5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 9:17 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOI	Ada, Elmore, Owyhee	43 min
May 30, 10:03 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOI	Ada, Boise, Elmore	42 min
May 30, 10:25 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOI	Boise	35 min
May 30, 12:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOI	Owyhee	42 min
May 30, 1:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOI	Owyhee	62 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 61 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 382 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 8:25 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bonneville, Caribou, Fremont, Madison, Teton	65 min
May 30, 8:29 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bannock, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Camas and 13 more	2 hr
May 30, 11:46 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bannock, Bingham, Blaine, Butte, Camas, Cassia and 12 more	119 min
May 30, 12:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bingham, Blaine, Boise, Butte, Camas, Cassia and 12 more	6 hr
May 30, 1:06 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, Butte, Camas and 10 more	2 hr
May 30, 2:18 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bingham, Butte, Cassia, Jefferson, Jerome, Minidoka and 2 more	117 min
May 30, 5:28 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ada, Bingham, Blaine, Boise, Butte, Camas and 13 more	92 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.