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Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Boise, ID

August 1, 2022Owyhee County, Twin Falls County, Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this red flag warning at Aug 1, 2022, 8:31 AM MDT for Owyhee County, Twin Falls County, Idaho. It took effect at Aug 1, 2022, 3:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 6 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 1, 2022, 8:31 AM MDT (14:31 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 1, 2022, 3:00 PM MDT
Expired
Aug 1, 2022, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
6 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 14:30 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2022-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2022-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -48 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
3960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 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.