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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Boise, ID

March 15, 2025Owyhee County, Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon

NWS Boise, ID issued this high wind warning at Mar 15, 2025, 2:49 AM MDT for Owyhee County, Idaho; Harney County, Malheur County, Oregon. It took effect at Mar 16, 2025, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 14 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
Mar 15, 2025, 2:49 AM MDT (08:49 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 16, 2025, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 17, 2025, 12:00 AM MDT
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Owyhee County, ID, Harney County, OR, Malheur County, OR

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:48 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

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 379 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, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 2025-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 2025-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 146 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 15, 2:55 AM MDTWind AdvisoryBOIAda, Elmore, Gooding, Jerome, Owyhee, Twin Falls45 hr
Mar 15, 3:09 AM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOIAdams, Gem, Valley, Washington33 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.