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Winter Weather Advisory 29, NWS Missoula, MT

March 28, 2012Lemhi County, Idaho

NWS Missoula, MT issued this winter weather advisory at Mar 28, 2012, 8:12 AM MDT for Lemhi County, Idaho. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 2012, 8:12 AM MDT (14:12 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 2012, 5:13 PM MDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Missoula, MT

County Lemhi County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 227 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:15 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 236 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, Boise Airport, ID at 12:00Z on 2012-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Boise Airport, ID at 12:00Z on 2012-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1101 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 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 winter weather advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Missoula, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter weather advisory went out at Mar 28, 3:56 AM MDT, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 3:56 AM MDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 1:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOLake60 min
Mar 28, 2:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOGranite, Missoula60 min

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in Idaho, 2012Every winter weather advisory in 2012

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.