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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Pocatello, ID

May 8, 20244 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this wind advisory at May 8, 2024, 1:26 PM MDT for 4 counties in Idaho. It took effect at May 9, 2024, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 2024, 1:26 PM MDT (19:26 UTC)
In effect from
May 9, 2024, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired
May 9, 2024, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID

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

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 309 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 2024-05-08Temperature 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2024-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 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
1324 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
119 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
May 8, 1:26 PM MDTFrost AdvisoryPIHBlaine, Bonneville, Cassia, Fremont, Jefferson, Lincoln and 3 more20 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.