Alert archive / Idaho / Red Flag Warnings in 2018
Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Boise, ID
NWS Boise, ID issued this red flag warning at Aug 2, 2018, 8:00 AM MDT for 6 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Aug 2, 2018, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 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 2, 2018, 8:00 AM MDT (14:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 2, 2018, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2018, 9:29 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boise, ID
Counties Boise County, ID, Camas County, ID, Elmore County, ID, Gem County, ID, Idaho County, ID, Valley County, ID
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:00 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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 392 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2329 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Idaho, 2018Red Flag Warnings in Oregon, 2018Every red flag warning in 2018
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.