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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Boise, ID
NWS Boise, ID issued this red flag warning at Aug 7, 2006, 6:44 AM MDT for 7 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Aug 8, 2006, 9:37 AM MDT. It was in force for 14 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2006, 6:44 AM MDT (12:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 8, 2006, 9:37 AM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2006, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boise, ID
Counties Adams County, ID, Boise County, ID, Gem County, ID, Idaho County, ID, Payette County, ID, Valley County, ID, Washington County, ID
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:45 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
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 348 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2834 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Aug 7, 4:59 AM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 4:59 AM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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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.