Alert archive / Oregon / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 13, NWS Boise, ID
NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at May 29, 2011, 2:41 AM PDT for Baker County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at May 29, 2011, 8:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2011, 2:41 AM PDT (09:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 29, 2011, 8:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- May 29, 2011, 7:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boise, ID
Counties Baker County, OR, Malheur County, OR
The radar
The Boise radar (KCBX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:45 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
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
271 WWUS75 KBOI 290941 NPWBOI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 341 AM MDT SUN MAY 29 2011 ...VERY WINDY OVER THE AREA TODAY... ORZ062>064-292200- /O.NEW.KBOI.WI.Y.0013.110529T1500Z-110530T0200Z/ BAKER COUNTY-MALHEUR COUNTY-LOWER TREASURE VALLEY OR- 341 AM MDT SUN MAY 29 2011 /241 AM PDT SUN MAY 29 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM MDT /8 AM PDT/ THIS MORNING TO 8 PM MDT /7 PM PDT/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BOISE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM MDT /8 AM PDT/ THIS MORNING TO 8 PM MDT /7 PM PDT/ THIS EVENING FOR BAKER COUNTY...MALHEUR COUNTY AND THE LOWER TREASURE VALLEY IN OREGON. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...FROM THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * IMPACTS...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CAUSE A DRIVING HAZARD ESPECIALLY THROUGH THE I-84 CORRIDOR WHERE NORTHWEST WINDS WILL ALIGN WITH THE LOCAL TERRAIN FOR INCREASED WIND SPEEDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH... OR GUSTS OF AT LEAST 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
2 follow-up statements
364 WWUS75 KBOI 292027 NPWBOI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 227 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2011 ...VERY WINDY OVER THE AREA TODAY... ORZ063-292130- /O.CAN.KBOI.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-110530T0200Z/ MALHEUR COUNTY- 227 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2011 /127 PM PDT SUN MAY 29 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BOISE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MALHEUR COUNTY THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THIS IS WELL BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH SO THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ ORZ062-064-300200- /O.CON.KBOI.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-110530T0200Z/ BAKER COUNTY-LOWER TREASURE VALLEY OR- 227 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2011 /127 PM PDT SUN MAY 29 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT /7 PM PDT/ THIS EVENING... * WINDS...NORTHWEST 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * IMPACTS...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CAUSE A DRIVING HAZARD FOR HIGH PROFILE OR LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES THROUGH THE I-84 CORRIDOR WHERE NORTHWEST WINDS WILL ALIGN WITH THE LOCAL TERRAIN FOR INCREASED WIND SPEEDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH... OR GUSTS OF AT LEAST 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
873 WWUS75 KBOI 300153 NPWBOI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 753 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2011 ORZ062-064-300300- /O.EXP.KBOI.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-110530T0200Z/ BAKER COUNTY-LOWER TREASURE VALLEY OR- 753 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2011 /653 PM PDT SUN MAY 29 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM MDT /7 PM PDT/ THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY FOR BAKER COUNTY AND THE LOWER TREASURE VALLEY OF OREGON WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM PDT. NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE ALREADY WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY AND WILL RANGE FROM 5 TO 15 MPH BY MIDNIGHT PDT. $$
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.