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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Pocatello, ID

February 4, 2024Cassia County, Oneida County, Power County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this wind advisory at Feb 4, 2024, 11:17 AM MST for Cassia County, Oneida County, Power County, Idaho. It took effect at Feb 4, 2024, 3:00 PM MST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 4, 2024, 11:17 AM MST (18:17 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 4, 2024, 3:00 PM MST
Expired
Feb 5, 2024, 5:55 AM MST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Cassia County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 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 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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 2024-02-04Temperature 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 2024-02-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 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
1161 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 4, 3:35 AM MSTWinter Storm WarningPIHBingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Clark, Custer and 3 more3 days
Feb 4, 3:35 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPIHBear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Caribou and 7 more4 days

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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.