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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Boise, ID

August 25, 2019Owyhee County, Twin Falls County, Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this red flag warning at Aug 25, 2019, 8:08 AM MDT for Owyhee County, Twin Falls County, Idaho. It took effect at Aug 25, 2019, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 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 25, 2019, 8:08 AM MDT (14:08 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 25, 2019, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired
Aug 25, 2019, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Owyhee County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:08 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 348 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2019-08-25Temperature 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2019-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 150 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3242 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.