Alert archive / Idaho / Red Flag Warnings in 2023
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Boise, ID
NWS Boise, ID issued this red flag warning at Jul 26, 2023, 1:54 PM MDT for 6 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Jul 27, 2023, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Jul 26, 2023, 1:54 PM MDT (19:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 27, 2023, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2023, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boise, ID
Counties Elmore County, ID, Gooding County, ID, Jerome County, ID, Lincoln County, ID, Owyhee County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4461 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.