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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Boise, ID

August 26, 20107 counties in Idaho; Baker County, Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this high wind warning at Aug 26, 2010, 3:09 AM MDT for 7 counties in Idaho; Baker County, Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at Aug 26, 2010, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 12 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
Aug 26, 2010, 3:09 AM MDT (09:09 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 26, 2010, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Aug 27, 2010, 12:00 AM MDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Ada County, ID, Canyon County, ID, Elmore County, ID, Gem County, ID, Owyhee County, ID, Payette County, ID, Washington County, ID, Baker County, OR, Harney County, OR, Malheur County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 452 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, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 2010-08-26Temperature 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, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 2010-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
4529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind warning 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 high wind warning went out at Aug 26, 2:52 AM MDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 2:52 AM MDT, 17 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Boise, ID issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 5:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOIElmore49 min

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Idaho, 2010High Wind Warnings in Oregon, 2010Every high wind warning in 2010

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.