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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Boise, ID

April 13, 20086 counties in Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at Apr 13, 2008, 3:12 PM MDT for 6 counties in Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at Apr 14, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 13, 2008, 3:12 PM MDT (21:12 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 14, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Apr 14, 2008, 10:16 PM MDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

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

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 418 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2008-04-13Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2008-04-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3428 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.