Alert archive / Idaho / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this wind advisory at Jan 30, 2006, 2:21 AM PST for Clearwater County, Idaho County, Idaho. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 30, 2006, 2:21 AM PST (10:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2006, 1:22 PM PST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Clearwater County, ID, Idaho County, ID
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:20 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
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS75 KMSO 301021 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 321 AM MST MON JAN 30 2006 IDZ007-008-301800- /O.CAN.KMSO.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060130T1800Z/ /O.NEW.KMSO.WI.Y.0007.060130T1021Z-060130T1800Z/ OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION-LOWER HELLS CANYON/SALMON RIVER REGION- 221 AM PST MON JAN 30 2006 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THIS MORNING. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. A STRONG SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT IN ADVANCE OF A VIGOROUS PACIFIC TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE CAMAS PRAIRIE AND SALMON RIVER AREA...ALTHOUGH NOT AS STRONG AS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT. SUSTAINED SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED THIS MORNING. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY TAPER OFF BEHIND THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT AROUND MIDDAY MONDAY. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS75 KMSO 301624 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 924 AM MST MON JAN 30 2006 IDZ007-008-302200- /O.EXT.KMSO.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-060130T2200Z/ OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION-LOWER HELLS CANYON/SALMON RIVER REGION- 824 AM PST MON JAN 30 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON... A STRONG SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT IN ADVANCE OF A VIGOROUS PACIFIC TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE CAMAS PRAIRIE AND SALMON RIVER AREA. SUSTAINED SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY TAPER OFF BEHIND THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT AROUND MIDDAY TODAY. $$
000 WWUS75 KMSO 302122 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 222 PM MST MON JAN 30 2006 IDZ007-008-302230- /O.CAN.KMSO.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-060130T2200Z/ OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION-LOWER HELLS CANYON/SALMON RIVER REGION- 122 PM PST MON JAN 30 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE TAPERED OFF THE LAST HOUR AND ARE NOT REACHING ADVISORY CRITERIA. BREEZY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL AFTER THE COLD FRONT PASSES THROUGH THE AREA EARLY THIS EVENING. $$
Nearby
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.