Alert archive / Idaho / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this wind advisory at Jan 17, 2012, 3:48 PM PST for Clearwater County, Idaho County, Idaho. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 17, 2012, 3:48 PM PST (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2012, 6:13 PM PST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Clearwater County, ID, Idaho County, ID
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 962 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
600 WWUS75 KMSO 172348 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 448 PM MST TUE JAN 17 2012 ...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS NEAR GRANGEVILLE AND VICINITY THROUGH THIS EVENING... IDZ007-180900- /O.NEW.KMSO.WI.Y.0003.120117T2348Z-120118T0900Z/ OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION- 348 PM PST TUE JAN 17 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM PST WEDNESDAY FOR GRANGEVILLE AND VICINITY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR GRANGEVILLE AND VICINITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM PST WEDNESDAY. * IMPACTS/TIMING: GUSTY WINDS WILL BE PRESENT IN GRANGEVILLE AND VICINITY THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING...AHEAD OF A STRONG SNOW PRODUCING STORM SYSTEM. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY MAINTAINING CONTROL AT TIMES ALONG HIGHWAY 95. * WINDS: SOUTH 25 TO 35 MPH...GUSTING TO 45 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
1 follow-up statement
408 WWUS75 KMSO 180213 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 713 PM MST TUE JAN 17 2012 IDZ007-180315- /O.CAN.KMSO.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-120118T0900Z/ OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION- 613 PM PST TUE JAN 17 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WIND DRIVEN SNOW HAS DEVELOPED OVER THE CAMAS PRAIRIE THIS EVENING. WINTER WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS NOW IN EFFECT. $$
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.