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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Boise, ID

March 28, 2010Owyhee County, Twin Falls County, Idaho; Baker County, Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at Mar 28, 2010, 1:11 PM MDT for Owyhee County, Twin Falls County, Idaho; Baker County, Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at Mar 29, 2010, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 2010, 1:11 PM MDT (19:11 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 29, 2010, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 29, 2010, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Owyhee County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID, Baker County, OR, Harney County, OR, Malheur County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 413 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 2010-03-28Temperature 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 2010-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2207 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 3:27 AM MDTWinter Storm WatchBOIAdams, Boise, Camas, Elmore, Gem, Valley and 1 more24 hr

Nearby

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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.