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Winter Storm Warning 8, NWS Boise, ID

February 6, 2017Owyhee County, Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this winter storm warning at Feb 6, 2017, 2:56 PM MST for Owyhee County, Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at Feb 6, 2017, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for 12 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
Feb 6, 2017, 2:56 PM MST (21:56 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 6, 2017, 11:00 PM MST
Expired
Feb 7, 2017, 11:00 AM MST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Owyhee County, ID, Harney County, OR, Malheur County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 363 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2017-02-06Temperature 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2017-02-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 294 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
294 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
383 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 Feb 6, 9:57 AM MST, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 9:57 AM MST, 4 hours 59 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 6, 2:56 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOIAda, Camas, Canyon, Elmore, Gem, Gooding and 5 more26 hr
Feb 6, 3:27 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOITwin Falls24 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Oregon, 2017Winter Storm Warnings in Idaho, 2017Every winter storm warning in 2017

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.