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Wind Advisory 14, NWS Pocatello, ID

May 18, 20226 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this wind advisory at May 18, 2022, 4:05 AM MDT for 6 counties in Idaho. It took effect at May 18, 2022, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 2022, 4:05 AM MDT (10:05 UTC)
In effect from: May 18, 2022, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: May 18, 2022, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Bingham County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Madison County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:08 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 324 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 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 Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at May 18, 3:40 AM MDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 3:40 AM MDT, 25 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 3:02 PM MDT	Wind Advisory	PIH	Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte and 9 more	30 hr

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.