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Wind Advisory 20, NWS Boise, ID

October 24, 2010Twin Falls County, Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at Oct 24, 2010, 8:50 PM MDT for Twin Falls County, Idaho. It took effect at Oct 25, 2010, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 24, 2010, 8:50 PM MDT (02:50 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 25, 2010, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired
Oct 25, 2010, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

County Twin Falls County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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, Elko, NV at 00:00Z on 2010-10-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 29 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Elko, NV at 00:00Z on 2010-10-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 476 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
29 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
93 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
476 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
619 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.