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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Boise, ID

September 3, 2013Ada County, Boise County, Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2013, 9:40 AM MDT for Ada County, Boise County, Idaho. It was in force for 95 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
Sep 3, 2013, 9:40 AM MDT (15:40 UTC)
Expired
Sep 3, 2013, 11:15 AM MDT
In force
95 min
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Ada County, ID, Boise County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:41 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 24 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 12:00Z on 2013-09-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 155 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2013-09-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 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 flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Sep 3, 3:24 AM MDT, 6 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 3:24 AM MDT, 6 hours 16 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 3, 6:00 AM MDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID
600 AM MDT TUE SEP 3 2013

IDZ015-029-030-ORZ061-063-041200-
SOUTHWEST HIGHLANDS-OWYHEE MOUNTAINS-SOUTHERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY-
HARNEY COUNTY-MALHEUR COUNTY-
600 AM MDT TUE SEP 3 2013 /500 AM PDT TUE SEP 3 2013/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT / 5PM PDT TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

IDZ012-014-016-ORZ064-041200-
LOWER TREASURE VALLEY ID-UPPER TREASURE VALLEY-
WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY-LOWER TREASURE VALLEY OR-
600 AM MDT TUE SEP 3 2013

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

IDZ011-013-028-033-ORZ062-041200-
WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-BOISE MOUNTAINS-CAMAS PRAIRIE-
UPPER WEISER RIVER-BAKER COUNTY-
600 AM MDT TUE SEP 3 2013 /500 AM PDT TUE SEP 3 2013/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT / 11PM PDT TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Boise, ID issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 2, 9:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOITwin Falls47 min
Sep 3, 2:37 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOIOwyhee, Twin Falls83 min
Sep 3, 3:12 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOITwin Falls48 min
Sep 3, 5:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOI58 min
Sep 3, 4:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIHarney, Malheur48 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Idaho, 2013Every flash flood warning in 2013

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.