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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Boise, ID

February 25, 200910 counties in Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at Feb 25, 2009, 3:10 PM MST for 10 counties in Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at Feb 26, 2009, 9:12 AM MST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 25, 2009, 3:10 PM MST (22:10 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 26, 2009, 9:12 AM MST
Expired
Feb 26, 2009, 6:00 PM MST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Ada County, ID, Canyon County, ID, Elmore County, ID, Gem County, ID, Gooding County, ID, Jerome County, ID, Owyhee County, ID, Payette County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID, Washington County, ID, Harney County, OR, Malheur County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 448 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 2009-02-25Temperature 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 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 2009-02-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
3436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 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.