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Wind Advisory 7, NWS Boise, ID

March 30, 2020Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at Mar 30, 2020, 1:41 AM PDT for Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at Mar 30, 2020, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 30, 2020, 1:41 AM PDT (08:41 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 30, 2020, 2:00 PM PDT
Expired
Mar 30, 2020, 6:30 PM PDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Harney County, OR, Malheur County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:43 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

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 377 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2020-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 16 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2020-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 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
16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.