Alert archive / Idaho / Wind Advisories in 2009
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Boise, ID
NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at Mar 23, 2009, 1:31 AM MDT for 6 counties in Idaho. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2009, 1:31 AM MDT (07:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2009, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 12 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
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:31 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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boise, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 3:05 PM MDT | Winter Storm Watch | BOI | Adams, Boise, Camas, Elmore, Gem, Twin Falls and 2 more | 23 hr |
Nearby
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.