446 FXUS65 KBOI 102001 AFDBOIArea Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Boise ID 201 PM MDT Wed Sep 10 2025
.SHORT TERM...Tonight through Friday night...A closed low over northern California is moving up to the OR/NV border this evening, bringing widespread showers and scatter thunderstorms. Thunderstorms could produce gusts up to 50 mph, heavy rain, and small hail. Heavy rain over burn scars in Eastern Oregon have prompted the issuance of a Flash Flood Watch through the night.
The low has been visible on satellite throughout the day following the track described all models. An area of thunderstorms has already formed close to and in the moisture band of the low. The environment over our forecast area has 0.8 inches of PW (about 80th percentile) and about 400 J/kg of SBCAPE. Though, with the cloud cover and moisture, CAPE values vary widely among HREF members, from 100 up to 1000 J/kg. That said, we will have the broad forcing on the left exit of an upper jet core and surface low moving in. All CAMs show a broad area of showers and thunderstorms directly associated with the center of the low being the primary threat tonight. SPC has added a marginal risk of severe weather and WPC maintains their marginal risk for excessive rainfall resulting in flash flooding.
Consensus among the CAMs shows a broad 40-50 mph gust front moving through the Snake Plain tonight, including the Treasure Valley and Magic Valley. While uncertainty is high in the exact track due to the cause being thunderstorms, consensus among CAMs for an outflow is a significant indicator of occurrence. The moisture is also projected to fuel heavy rain rates in stronger showers and storms. Models project 0.5" in one hour locally, but the environment could be conducive to much more if storms can become organized in our marginally sheared environment (EBWD of 29 kts). Reports of small hail in storms this morning support the inclusion of hail as a possibility in storms tonight. Wrap around moisture supports a 15-30% chance of precipitation Friday evening before a shortwave ridge begins to move in behind the low.
.LONG TERM...Saturday through Wednesday...Warmer and drier weather Saturday and Sunday with models in close agreement moving a weakening short wave ridge eastward across our CWA. Models then bring a north Pacific upper low inland across WA Sunday night and a lobe ahead of it carrying showers and a chance of thunderstorms into southeast OR. GFS forecasts the low center to deepen over WA Monday, then move to southern OR Tuesday, and across southern ID Wednesday. This track is favorable for significant rainfall in our CWA as well as below normal daytime temperatures. Latest NBM forecast, however, keeps total pcpn less than .20 inch even during the wettest period (Sunday night through Monday), while NBM MOS statistical guidance keeps the chance of any measurable amount at only 30 to 50 percent. These values may look conservative but not unrealistic, as forecasting the track of inland closed lows is difficult, and by Sunday night the models have fallen out of agreement.
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.AVIATION...VFR. Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms in se OR, and also after 11/00Z in sw ID. Mountains locally obscured in clouds and pcpn. Thunderstorms will have local heavy rain, small hail, and gusts to 45 kt. After 11/06Z numerous showers north of KBNO-KMYL with frequent mountain obscuration. Showers ending elsewhere from south to north by 11/12Z. Scattered showers and local mountain obscuration continuing west of KBNO-KBKE through 11/18Z. Surface winds: variable 5-15 kt. Winds aloft at 10kft MSL: E-S 15-20 kt.
KBOI...VFR. Scattered-broken clouds at or above 10 kft AGL until 11/01Z. Showers and thunderstorms from 11/01Z until 11/06Z. Gusts to 40 kt and local MVFR in heavy rain with thunderstorms. After 11/06Z scattered clouds 5 kft AGL and broken aoa 10 kft AGL. Surface winds: NW 10kt until 11/01Z, then variable through 11/10Z, then light SE.
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.BOI WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...None. OR...Flash Flood Watch through late tonight ORZ061>064.
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