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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Boise, ID

January 25, 20088 counties in Idaho; Baker County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this winter storm warning at Jan 25, 2008, 3:30 PM MST for 8 counties in Idaho; Baker County, Oregon. It took effect at Jan 26, 2008, 5:32 AM MST. It was in force for 53 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 25, 2008, 3:30 PM MST (22:30 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 26, 2008, 5:32 AM MST
Expired
Jan 28, 2008, 11:00 AM MST
In force
53 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

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

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 52 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, Boise Airport, ID at 12:00Z on 2008-01-25Temperature 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, Boise Airport, ID at 12:00Z on 2008-01-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 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
692 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 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 25, 3:30 PM MSTSnow AdvisoryBOIAda, Boise, Camas, Canyon, Elmore, Gem and 6 more68 hr
Jan 25, 3:30 PM MSTWinter Storm WatchBOIBaker14 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Idaho, 2008Winter Storm Warnings in Oregon, 2008Every winter storm 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.