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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Boise, ID

July 13, 2007Baker County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2007, 8:53 PM PDT for Baker County, Oregon. It was in force for 67 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
Jul 13, 2007, 8:53 PM PDT (03:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2007, 10:00 PM PDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baker County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2007-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2007-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
6231 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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 Jul 13, 2:30 PM PDT, 6 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 2:30 PM PDT, 6 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID
330 PM MDT FRI JUL 13 2007

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
DEVELOPED THIS MORNING AND CONTINUE TO PROGRESS EAST INTO EASTERN
WASHINGTON INTO NORTHEAST OREGON. MODEST SHEAR OF 30-40 KTS IN OUR
NORTHEAST OREGON ZONES THIS EVENING WILL PROVIDE THE POTENTIAL FOR
SMALL HAIL WITH STORMS AROUND BAKER. THUNDERSTORM PRODUCTION BECOMES
MORE FAVORABLE FURTHER EAST INTO THE WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS THIS
EVENING. FURTHER SOUTH...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN
THE SOUTHWEST HIGHLANDS BUT THE CONCERN WITH THESE CELLS WILL BE
GUSTY WINDS DUE TO HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS. CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO
END BY MIDNIGHT...BUT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTINUE IN THE
BOISE AND WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING AS
THE WEAKENING UPPER JET MOVES ACROSS THAT AREA PROVIDING DYNAMICAL
SUPPORT. HOT TEMPS CONTINUE ON SATURDAY ALTHOUGH IT WON/T BE QUITE
AS HOT AS MODEL THICKNESSES ARE SLIGHTLY LOWER. DRIER AIR CONTINUES
TO WORK NORTHWARD OUT OF THE GREAT BASIN WITH A SLIGHTLY LOWER
CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN THE NORTH WITH
LITTLE OR NO POPS ELSEWHERE. TEMPS WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER ON SUNDAY
AS THE THERMAL AXIS GETS SHOVED EAST AND A PACIFIC TROUGH EDGES
CLOSER TO THE COAST. ONCE AGAIN...SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL FAVOR
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE NORTHERN HIGH TERRAIN. WINDS ARE
EXPECTED TO INCREASE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AHEAD OF APPROACHING
TROUGH.

.LONG TERM...SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW
UPPER LEVEL TROUGH SLOWLY PROGRESSING EASTWARD THROUGHOUT THE
PERIOD...WITH AXIS OF TROUGH REMAINING TO THE WEST OF THE FORECAST
AREA. GFS CONTINUES TO SHOW A FASTER PROGRESSION OF THE TROUGH
EASTWARD DURING THE PERIOD. MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW IS EXPECTED...AND
MODELS INDICATING PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES AROUND 0.60 OR GREATER
DURING THE PERIOD. INCREASED AFTERNOON AND EVENING POPS ACROSS
REGION IN THE MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY TO
INCLUDE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES. TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO GRADUALLY COOL
ACROSS THE REGION BEGINNING ON WEDNESDAY AS HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES
LOWER. MODELS INDICATING AMPLE MOISTURE SUPPLY THROUGH EARLY
THURSDAY...WITH CONDITIONS BEGINNING TO DRY ON FRIDAY. MULTIPLE
EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES EXPECTED TO AFFECT OUR FORECAST AREA AS UPPER
TROUGH PUSHES INLAND AND CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
REMAIN THROUGH NEXT FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO REBOUND ON
FRIDAY...UPPER 90S IN THE VALLEYS...AS RIDGE ATTEMPTS TO REBUILD BY
THE WEEKEND.

&&

.AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED WITH SCATTERED TO BROKEN HIGH
CLOUDS. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY OVER HIGHER TERRAIN
THROUGH AT LEAST 06Z. BASES OF THUNDERSTORMS 7-10K FEET.
THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS. REDUCED VISIBILITIES
OF 6-10 SM AND LOCAL MVFR AND IFR VISIBILITIES POSSIBLE IN THE
VICINITY OF FIRES. TOP OF SMOKE LAYERS BETWEEN 9-12K FEET MSL. LIGHT
WINDS AT SURFACE AND ALOFT. PATCHY HAZE AND SMOKE EXPECTED THROUGH
AT LEAST SATURDAY WITH AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS
THROUGH SUNDAY.

&&

.BOI WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
ID...NONE.
OR...NONE.
&&

WEATHER.GOV/BOISE

SHORT TERM...BW
LONG TERM....SL/MT
AVIATION.....SL
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 4:25 AM PDT, 16 hours 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID
525 AM MDT FRI JUL 13 2007

IDZ011>016-028>030-ORZ061>064-141130-
WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-LOWER TREASURE VALLEY ID-BOISE MOUNTAINS-
UPPER TREASURE VALLEY-SOUTHWEST HIGHLANDS-WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY-
CAMAS PRAIRIE-OWYHEE MOUNTAINS-SOUTHERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY-
HARNEY COUNTY-BAKER COUNTY-MALHEUR COUNTY-
LOWER TREASURE VALLEY OR-
525 AM MDT FRI JUL 13 2007 /425 AM PDT FRI JUL 13 2007/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
IDAHO...SOUTHWEST IDAHO...WEST CENTRAL IDAHO...NORTHEAST OREGON
AND SOUTHEAST OREGON.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 4:39 PM PDT, 4 hours 14 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.