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Wind Advisory 15, NWS Boise, ID

November 12, 2020Owyhee County, Twin Falls County, Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at Nov 12, 2020, 1:44 PM MST for Owyhee County, Twin Falls County, Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at Nov 13, 2020, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 12, 2020, 1:44 PM MST (20:44 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 13, 2020, 11:00 AM MST
Expired
Nov 13, 2020, 9:11 AM MST
In force
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

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

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 2020-11-12Temperature 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, Boise Airport, ID at 12:00Z on 2020-11-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
1005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 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 Nov 12, 10:04 AM MST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 12, 10:04 AM MST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 12, 1:44 PM MSTWinter Storm WarningBOIAdams, Boise, Camas, Elmore, Gem, Valley and 1 more32 hr
Nov 12, 1:44 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOIAdams, Camas, Elmore, Washington32 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Idaho, 2020Wind Advisories in Oregon, 2020Every wind advisory in 2020

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.