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Wind Advisory 20, NWS Boise, ID
NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at Oct 27, 2009, 3:38 AM MDT for Gooding County, Jerome County, Twin Falls County, Idaho. It took effect at Oct 27, 2009, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 27, 2009, 3:38 AM MDT (09:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 27, 2009, 10:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2009, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 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 09:38 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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 3088 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Oct 27, 3:30 AM MDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 3:30 AM MDT, 8 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 522 PM MDT MON OCT 26 2009 ORZ062-271200- BAKER COUNTY- 422 PM PDT MON OCT 26 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OREGON. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BOISE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR BAKER COUNTY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING. GUSTY SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS TO 25 TO 35 MPH LOOK TO PROCEED THE FRONT THEN WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTING AROUND 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH AND BEHIND THE FRONT FOR AN HOUR OR TWO. LOCAL GUSTS TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IN ACCORDANCE WITH ESTABLISHED PROCEDURES. IDZ012-ORZ064-271200- LOWER TREASURE VALLEY ID-LOWER TREASURE VALLEY OR- 522 PM MDT MON OCT 26 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IDAHO AND SOUTHEAST OREGON. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BOISE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR THE LOWER TREASURE VALLEY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM MDT TUESDAY. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH WILL FOLLOW BEHIND A COLD FRONT AFTER IT PUSHES THROUGH THIS EVENING. LOCAL BLOWING DUST IS POSSIBLE AND MAY REDUCE VISIBILITIES DOWN TO A MILE IN PLACES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IN ACCORDANCE WITH ESTABLISHED PROCEDURES. ORZ061-063-271200- HARNEY COUNTY-MALHEUR COUNTY- 522 PM MDT MON OCT 26 2009 /422 PM PDT MON OCT 26 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OREGON. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THE WIND ADVISORY FOR HARNEY COUNTY AND MALHEUR COUNTY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT /11 PM PDT/ TONIGHT. DRIVERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SHIFTING AND GUSTY WINDS SOUTH TO NORTHWEST...WITH LOCAL GUSTS TO 55 MPH AND LOCALLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES OF 1 TO 2 MILES IN BLOWING DUST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IN ACCORDANCE WITH ESTABLISHED PROCEDURES. IDZ014>016-028-029-271200- UPPER TREASURE VALLEY-SOUTHWEST HIGHLANDS-WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY- CAMAS PRAIRIE-OWYHEE MOUNTAINS- 522 PM MDT MON OCT 26 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO AND SOUTHWEST IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM MDT TUESDAY. A COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE OWYHEE MOUNTAINS 7 TO 8 PM...THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE UPPER TREASURE VALLEY 9 TO 10 PM AND THE MAGIC VALLEY SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. GUSTY SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS TO 30 OR 40 MPH LOOK TO PRECEDE THE FRONT THEN WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTING AROUND 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH AND BEHIND THE FRONT FOR AN HOUR OR TWO. LOCAL GUSTS TO 55 MPH AND BLOWING DUST REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO A MILE ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IN ACCORDANCE WITH ESTABLISHED PROCEDURES. IDZ011-013-030-033-271200- WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-BOISE MOUNTAINS-SOUTHERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY- UPPER WEISER RIVER- 522 PM MDT MON OCT 26 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO AND WEST CENTRAL IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Boise, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 7:58 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | BOI | Ada, Elmore, Gooding, Jerome, Owyhee, Twin Falls | 4 hr |
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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.