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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Boise, ID

August 3, 2014Baker County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2014, 4:14 PM PDT for Baker County, Malheur County, Oregon. It was in force for 46 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
Aug 3, 2014, 4:14 PM PDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2014, 5:00 PM PDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Baker County, OR, Malheur County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 2014-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 97 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 2014-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 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
97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-486 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 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 Aug 3, 1:44 PM PDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 1:44 PM PDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 3:14 AM PDTFlash Flood WatchBOIAda, Boise, Camas, Elmore, Gooding, Jerome and 2 more4 days
Aug 2, 5:32 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIBaker43 min
Aug 2, 5:39 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOIBaker20 min
Aug 2, 6:09 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOIBaker3 hr
Aug 3, 9:47 AM PDTRed Flag WarningBOI10 hr
Aug 3, 1:47 PM PDTFire Weather WatchBOI18 hr

Nearby

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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.