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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Boise, ID

December 26, 2022Owyhee County, Twin Falls County, Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this high wind warning at Dec 26, 2022, 3:51 AM MST for Owyhee County, Twin Falls County, Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at Dec 26, 2022, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for 21 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 26, 2022, 3:51 AM MST (10:51 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 26, 2022, 11:00 PM MST
Expired
Dec 27, 2022, 8:00 PM MST
In force
21 hr
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 10:54 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

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 376 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, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 2022-12-26Temperature 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, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 2022-12-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 26, 3:51 AM MSTWind AdvisoryBOIAdams, Gem, Owyhee, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington33 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Idaho, 2022High Wind Warnings in Oregon, 2022Every high wind warning in 2022

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.