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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Boise, ID

January 2, 20077 counties in Idaho; Baker County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this winter storm warning at Jan 2, 2007, 3:29 PM MST for 7 counties in Idaho; Baker County, Oregon. It took effect at Jan 3, 2007, 7:00 AM MST. It was in force for 21 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
Jan 2, 2007, 3:29 PM MST (22:29 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 3, 2007, 7:00 AM MST
Expired
Jan 4, 2007, 3:36 AM MST
In force
21 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Adams County, ID, Boise County, ID, Camas County, ID, Elmore County, ID, Gem County, ID, Valley County, ID, Washington County, ID, Baker County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 389 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, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2007-01-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2007-01-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 650 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
692 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
650 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
740 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
Jan 2, 4:29 AM MSTWinter Storm WatchBOIAdams, Boise, Camas, Elmore, Gem, Valley and 1 more11 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Idaho, 2007Winter Storm Warnings in Oregon, 2007Every winter storm warning in 2007

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.