Alert archive / Idaho / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 21, NWS Boise, ID
NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at Nov 12, 2008, 2:39 PM MST for Gooding County, Jerome County, Twin Falls County, Idaho. It took effect at Nov 12, 2008, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 12, 2008, 2:39 PM MST (21:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 12, 2008, 11:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Nov 13, 2008, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boise, ID
Counties Gooding County, ID, Jerome County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 577 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 KBOI 122139 NPWBOI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 239 PM MST WED NOV 12 2008 IDZ016-030-131200- /O.NEW.KBOI.WI.Y.0021.081113T0600Z-081114T0000Z/ WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY-SOUTHERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY- 239 PM MST WED NOV 12 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 PM MST THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BOISE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 PM MST THURSDAY FOR THE WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY AND SOUTHERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY... STRONG WEST WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT AND CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF THURSDAY AS A STORM SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE ADVISORY AREA. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS75 KBOI 131055 NPWBOI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 355 AM MST THU NOV 13 2008 IDZ016-030-131900- /O.CON.KBOI.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-081114T0000Z/ WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY-SOUTHERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY- 355 AM MST THU NOV 13 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY AND SOUTHERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY. STRONG WEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH IN THE WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY THIS MORNING ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH BY NOON AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. STRONG WINDS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON...BEFORE DECREASING SLOWLY THIS EVENING. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE ADVISORY AREA...ESPECIALLY THIS AFTERNOON. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED...WITH HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLE. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
000 WWUS75 KBOI 131842 NPWBOI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 1142 AM MST THU NOV 13 2008 IDZ016-030-140000- /O.CON.KBOI.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-081114T0000Z/ WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY-SOUTHERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY- 1142 AM MST THU NOV 13 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY AND SOUTHERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY. A COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE AROUND 10 AM IN THE MAGIC VALLEY THIS MORNING PRODUCED A BURST OF GUSTY WINDS TO 49 MPH. VERY WINDY WEST FLOW IN THE 30 TO 40 MPH RANGE IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DROP OFF TO 20 TO 30 MPH FOR THIS EVENING...WITH A GRADUAL DIMINISHING TREND OVERNIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED...WITH HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLE. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
000 WWUS75 KBOI 132342 NPWBOI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 442 PM MST THU NOV 13 2008 IDZ016-030-140045- /O.EXP.KBOI.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-081114T0000Z/ WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY-SOUTHERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY- 442 PM MST THU NOV 13 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY AND SOUTHERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. WEST WINDS DECREASED BELOW ADVISORY THRESHOLDS AROUND 4 PM MST AND WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY DECREASE THROUGH THE NIGHT. $$
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.