Alert archive / Idaho / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 21, NWS Boise, ID
NWS Boise, ID issued this red flag warning at Aug 11, 2012, 2:41 PM MDT for Boise County, Gem County, Valley County, Idaho. It took effect at Aug 12, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 36 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 11, 2012, 2:41 PM MDT (20:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 12, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2012, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boise, ID
Counties Boise County, ID, Gem County, ID, Valley County, ID
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 2783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
555 WWUS85 KBOI 112041 RFWBOI URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 241 PM MDT SAT AUG 11 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR HAINES 6 IN THE BOISE NATIONAL FOREST SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... .DRY AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL RESULT IN A HAINES 6 ACROSS SOUTHWEST IDAHO INCLUDING THE BOISE NATIONAL FOREST. THIS MEANS THAT THERE IS HIGH POTENTIAL FOR PLUME DOMINATED FIRE. IDZ403-404-121800- /O.NEW.KBOI.FW.W.0021.120812T1800Z-120814T0600Z/ NORTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST-SOUTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST- 241 PM MDT SAT AUG 11 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON SUNDAY TO MIDNIGHT MDT MONDAY NIGHT FOR HIGH HAINES FOR NORTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST AND SOUTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST...WHICH ARE FIRE WEATHER ZONES 403 AND 404... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BOISE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR HIGH HAINES...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON SUNDAY TO MIDNIGHT MDT MONDAY NIGHT. * HAINES...6. HIGH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF DRYNESS AND INSTABILITY IN THE MID LEVELS F THE ATMOSPHERE WILL CREATE POTENTIAL FOR EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH. && $$ H
3 follow-up statements
132 WWUS85 KBOI 121857 RFWBOI URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 1257 PM MDT SUN AUG 12 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR HAINES 6 BOISE NATIONAL FOREST THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... .DRY AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL RESULT IN A HAINES 6 ACROSS SOUTHWEST IDAHO INCLUDING THE BOISE NATIONAL FOREST. THIS MEANS THAT THERE IS HIGH POTENTIAL FOR PLUME DOMINATED FIRE. IDZ403-404-132100- /O.CON.KBOI.FW.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120814T0600Z/ NORTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST-SOUTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST- 1257 PM MDT SUN AUG 12 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT MONDAY NIGHT FOR HIGH HAINES FOR NORTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST AND SOUTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST...WHICH ARE FIRE WEATHER ZONES 403 AND 404... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT MONDAY NIGHT. * HAINES...6. HIGH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF DRYNESS AND INSTABILITY IN THE MID LEVELS F THE ATMOSPHERE WILL CREATE POTENTIAL FOR EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH. && $$ H
446 WWUS85 KBOI 131942 RFWBOI URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 142 PM MDT MON AUG 13 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR HAINES 6 BOISE NATIONAL FOREST THROUGH THIS EVENING... .DRY AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL RESULT IN A HAINES 6 ACROSS SOUTHWEST IDAHO INCLUDING THE BOISE NATIONAL FOREST. THIS MEANS THAT THERE IS HIGH POTENTIAL FOR PLUME DOMINATED FIRE. IDZ403-404-140600- /O.CON.KBOI.FW.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120814T0600Z/ NORTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST-SOUTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST- 142 PM MDT MON AUG 13 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT FOR HIGH HAINES FOR NORTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST AND SOUTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST...WHICH ARE FIRE WEATHER ZONES 403 AND 404... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT. * HAINES...6. HIGH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF DRYNESS AND INSTABILITY IN THE MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL CREATE POTENTIAL FOR EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH. && $$ H
391 WWUS85 KBOI 140551 RFWBOI URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 1151 PM MDT MON AUG 13 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR HIGH HAINES INDEX WILL EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT... IDZ403-404-140700- /O.EXP.KBOI.FW.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120814T0600Z/ NORTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST-SOUTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST- 1151 PM MDT MON AUG 13 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT FOR HIGH HAINES FOR NORTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST AND SOUTHERN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST...WHICH ARE FIRE WEATHER ZONES 403 AND 404... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT. THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE ON SCHEDULE AT MIDNIGHT. $$ H
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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.