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Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Boise, ID

August 9, 20188 counties in Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this red flag warning at Aug 9, 2018, 1:28 PM MDT for 8 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Aug 10, 2018, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 12 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 9, 2018, 1:28 PM MDT (19:28 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 10, 2018, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Aug 11, 2018, 12:00 AM MDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Adams County, ID, Boise County, ID, Camas County, ID, Elmore County, ID, Gem County, ID, Idaho County, ID, Valley County, ID, Washington County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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 2018-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2018-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 8:31 PM MDTExcessive Heat WarningBOIAda, Adams, Canyon, Elmore, Gem, Owyhee and 3 more51 hr
Aug 8, 8:31 PM MDTHeat AdvisoryBOIGooding, Jerome, Owyhee, Twin Falls51 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.