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Wind Chill Warning 7, NWS Pocatello, ID

December 20, 202219 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this wind chill warning at Dec 20, 2022, 11:54 AM MST for 19 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Dec 21, 2022, 5:00 PM MST. It was in force for 19 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 20, 2022, 11:54 AM MST (18:54 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 21, 2022, 5:00 PM MST
Expired
Dec 22, 2022, 12:00 PM MST
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Bannock County, ID, Bear Lake County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Blaine County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Caribou County, ID, Cassia County, ID, Clark County, ID, Custer County, ID, Franklin County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Lincoln County, ID, Madison County, ID, Minidoka County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID, Teton County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 274 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2022-12-20Temperature 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2022-12-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1906 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
174 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 chill warning 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 chill warning went out at Dec 20, 2:43 AM MST, 9 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 20, 2:43 AM MST, 9 hours 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 19, 8:08 PM MSTWinter Storm WatchPIHBannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte and 13 more16 hr
Dec 20, 11:54 AM MSTWinter Storm WarningPIHBear Lake, Caribou, Franklin33 hr
Dec 20, 11:54 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPIHBannock, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Cassia and 10 more33 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.