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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Boise, ID

December 19, 20167 counties in Idaho; Baker County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this winter storm warning at Dec 19, 2016, 4:28 AM MST for 7 counties in Idaho; Baker County, Oregon. It took effect at Dec 19, 2016, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for 16 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 19, 2016, 4:28 AM MST (11:28 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 19, 2016, 11:00 PM MST
Expired
Dec 20, 2016, 2:40 PM MST
In force
16 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Adams County, ID, Boise County, ID, Camas County, ID, Elmore County, ID, Gem County, ID, Valley County, ID, Washington County, ID, Baker County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:27 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

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 389 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, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 2016-12-19Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 2016-12-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 171 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
226 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 storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 19, 3:28 AM MST, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 3:28 AM MST, 1 hour before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 19, 4:28 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOIAda, Canyon, Elmore, Gem, Owyhee, Payette and 1 more34 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Idaho, 2016Winter Storm Warnings in Oregon, 2016Every winter storm warning in 2016

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.