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Lake Wind Advisory 26, NWS Pocatello, ID

August 17, 2021Bannock County, Bingham County, Power County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this lake wind advisory at Aug 17, 2021, 5:23 AM MDT for Bannock County, Bingham County, Power County, Idaho. It took effect at Aug 17, 2021, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 17, 2021, 5:23 AM MDT (11:23 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 17, 2021, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired
Aug 17, 2021, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Bannock County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Power County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 263 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 00:00Z on 2021-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 294 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Elko, NV at 00:00Z on 2021-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
294 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3962 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 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 lake wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before this lake wind advisory went out at Aug 17, 3:35 AM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 3:35 AM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 9:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHMinidoka41 min
Aug 16, 11:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHCassia, Power62 min
Aug 17, 3:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBonneville30 min
Aug 17, 4:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHTeton32 min

Nearby

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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.