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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Boise, ID

January 3, 20084 counties in Idaho; Baker County, Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this high wind warning at Jan 3, 2008, 2:21 PM MST for 4 counties in Idaho; Baker County, Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at Jan 4, 2008, 8:00 AM MST. It was in force for 13 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 3, 2008, 2:21 PM MST (21:21 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 4, 2008, 8:00 AM MST
Expired: Jan 4, 2008, 9:00 PM MST
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Boise, ID

Counties Gooding County, ID, Jerome County, ID, Owyhee County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID, Baker County, OR, Harney County, OR, Malheur County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 421 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Boise, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at Jan 3, 10:00 AM MST, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 10:00 AM MST, 4 hours 21 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Boise, ID issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 2:21 PM MST	Wind Advisory	BOI	Ada, Canyon, Elmore, Gem, Gooding, Jerome and 4 more	30 hr
Jan 3, 2:39 PM MST	Winter Storm Warning	BOI	Adams, Boise, Camas, Elmore, Gem, Valley and 1 more	44 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Idaho, 2008 High Wind Warnings in Oregon, 2008 Every high wind warning in 2008

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.