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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Boise, ID

February 24, 20244 counties in Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at Feb 24, 2024, 2:11 PM MST for 4 counties in Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at Feb 26, 2024, 8:00 AM MST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 24, 2024, 2:11 PM MST (21:11 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 26, 2024, 8:00 AM MST
Expired
Feb 26, 2024, 8:00 PM MST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Gooding County, ID, Jerome County, ID, Owyhee County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID, Harney County, OR, Malheur County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 85 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, Boise Airport, ID at 12:00Z on 2024-02-24Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Boise Airport, ID at 12:00Z on 2024-02-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 24, 2:06 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOIAdams, Boise, Camas, Elmore, Gem, Owyhee and 3 more54 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Idaho, 2024Wind Advisories in Oregon, 2024Every wind advisory in 2024

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.