Alert archive / Idaho / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Boise, ID
NWS Boise, ID issued this red flag warning at Aug 19, 2008, 3:48 AM MDT for 6 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Aug 19, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 2 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 19, 2008, 3:48 AM MDT (09:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 19, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2008, 2:23 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boise, ID
Counties Adams County, ID, Boise County, ID, Gem County, ID, Idaho County, ID, Valley County, ID, Washington County, ID
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:52 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
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 338 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3306 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Idaho, 2008Every red flag warning in 2008
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.