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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Boise, ID

August 14, 2015Jerome County, Twin Falls County, Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2015, 6:08 PM MDT for Jerome County, Twin Falls County, Idaho. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 14, 2015, 6:08 PM MDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 2015, 6:31 PM MDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Jerome County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 2015-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 108 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2015-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

698 
WUUS55 KBOI 150008
SVRBOI
IDC053-083-150100-
/O.NEW.KBOI.SV.W.0021.150815T0008Z-150815T0100Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID
608 PM MDT FRI AUG 14 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BOISE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL JEROME COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO...
  NORTHEASTERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO...

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 607 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM
  WAS LOCATED NEAR KIMBERLY...OR NEAR TWIN FALLS...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EDEN AROUND 610 PM MDT.
  MINIDOKA NATIONAL MONUMENT AROUND 620 PM MDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...
DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY
RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER
COVERS THE ROAD.

WHEN SAFE TO DO SO...PLEASE RELAY STORM REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE IN BOISE IDAHO VIA LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT...OR
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE FACEBOOK AND TWITTER ACCOUNTS.

&&

LAT...LON 4277 11406 4249 11432 4258 11453 4277 11441
      4282 11437 4281 11435 4281 11429 4280 11405
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 210DEG 36KT 4261 11438 

$$

LC
1 follow-up statement
372 
WWUS55 KBOI 150031
SVSBOI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID
631 PM MDT FRI AUG 14 2015

IDC053-083-150041-
/O.CAN.KBOI.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-150815T0100Z/
JEROME ID-TWIN FALLS ID-
631 PM MDT FRI AUG 14 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL JEROME AND
NORTHEASTERN TWIN FALLS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

WHEN SAFE TO DO SO...PLEASE RELAY STORM REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE IN BOISE IDAHO VIA LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT...OR
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE FACEBOOK AND TWITTER ACCOUNTS.

LAT...LON 4277 11406 4249 11432 4258 11453 4277 11441
      4282 11437 4281 11435 4281 11429 4280 11405
TIME...MOT...LOC 0026Z 210DEG 36KT 4281 11422 

$$

LC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 9:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIJerome29 min

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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.