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Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Boise, ID

July 22, 2024Owyhee County, Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this red flag warning at Jul 22, 2024, 7:56 AM MDT for Owyhee County, Idaho. It took effect at Jul 22, 2024, 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
Jul 22, 2024, 7:56 AM MDT (13:56 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 22, 2024, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Jul 23, 2024, 12:00 AM MDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

County Owyhee County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:57 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

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 376 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2024-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2024-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -59 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-265 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-23 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
Jul 21, 6:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIAda50 min
Jul 22, 4:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIWashington41 min
Jul 21, 6:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIBaker34 min
Jul 21, 7:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIBaker38 min
Jul 22, 2:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIBaker48 min
Jul 22, 3:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIBaker35 min

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.