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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Boise, ID

July 2, 2025Owyhee County, Twin Falls County, Idaho; Harney County, Lake County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this red flag warning at Jul 2, 2025, 2:33 PM MDT for Owyhee County, Twin Falls County, Idaho; Harney County, Lake County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at Jul 3, 2025, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 11 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 2, 2025, 2:33 PM MDT (20:33 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 3, 2025, 2:00 PM MDT
Expired
Jul 4, 2025, 1:00 AM MDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Owyhee County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID, Harney County, OR, Lake County, OR, Malheur County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 363 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 2025-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 68 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 2025-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 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
68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-347 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2009 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 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 2, 4:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIAda33 min
Jul 2, 5:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIAda39 min
Jul 2, 5:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIAda52 min
Jul 2, 2:35 AM MDTHeat AdvisoryBOIMalheur18 hr
Jul 2, 4:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIMalheur35 min
Jul 2, 4:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIBaker34 min
Jul 2, 4:45 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIBaker30 min
Jul 2, 5:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIBaker47 min
Jul 2, 5:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIHarney52 min
Jul 2, 5:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIBaker49 min
Jul 2, 5:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIMalheur49 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.