Alert archive / Idaho / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this wind advisory at Jan 4, 2008, 8:36 PM PST for Clearwater County, Idaho County, Idaho. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 4, 2008, 8:36 PM PST (04:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2008, 2:13 AM PST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Clearwater County, ID, Idaho County, ID
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:36 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
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 545 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 KMSO 050436 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 936 PM MST FRI JAN 4 2008 .WINDS ALOFT WILL COMBINE FORCES WITH A SOUTHERLY SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT TO CREATE STRONG WINDS IN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO PASS THROUGH THE REGION TONIGHT WITH BOTH WINDS ALOFT AND THE PRESSURE GRADIENT DECREASING. IDZ007-051200- /O.CAN.KMSO.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-080105T1200Z/ /O.NEW.KMSO.WI.Y.0002.080105T0436Z-080105T1200Z/ OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION- 836 PM PST FRI JAN 4 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST SATURDAY... ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST SATURDAY. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SOUTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED FROM 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH TONIGHT... MAINLY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 12. THE GRANGEVILLE AREA COULD SEE WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH TONIGHT AS CONDITIONS FAVOR DOWNSLOPING EFFECTS OFF THE MOUNTAINS SOUTH OF TOWN. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED. DRIVING MAY BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...SO USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ IDZ008-050545- /O.CAN.KMSO.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-080105T1200Z/ LOWER HELLS CANYON/SALMON RIVER REGION- 836 PM PST FRI JAN 4 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. $$ IDZ010-MTZ005>007-050545- /O.CAN.KMSO.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-080105T0600Z/ EASTERN LEMHI COUNTY-MISSOULA/BITTERROOT VALLEYS- BITTERROOT/SAPPHIRE MOUNTAINS-BUTTE/BLACKFOOT REGION- 936 PM MST FRI JAN 4 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS75 KMSO 051013 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 313 AM MST SAT JAN 5 2008 IDZ007-051115- /O.CAN.KMSO.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-080105T1200Z/ OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION- 213 AM PST SAT JAN 5 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SOUTH WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH ARE STILL EXPECTED THIS MORNING. $$
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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.