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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Boise, ID

February 7, 20154 counties in Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at Feb 7, 2015, 2:52 AM MST for 4 counties in Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at Feb 7, 2015, 8:00 AM MST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 7, 2015, 2:52 AM MST (09:52 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 7, 2015, 8:00 AM MST
Expired
Feb 7, 2015, 5:00 PM MST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Gooding County, ID, Jerome County, ID, Owyhee County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID, Harney County, OR, Malheur County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:55 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

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 401 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 00:00Z on 2015-02-07Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2015-02-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -162 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
953 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 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 wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Boise, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Feb 6, 8:48 PM MST, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 8:48 PM MST, 6 hours 4 minutes before
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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.