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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Boise, ID

March 2, 2025Ada County, Elmore County, Owyhee County, Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at Mar 2, 2025, 2:22 AM MST for Ada County, Elmore County, Owyhee County, Idaho. It took effect at Mar 3, 2025, 2:00 PM MST. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 2, 2025, 2:22 AM MST (09:22 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 3, 2025, 2:00 PM MST
Expired
Mar 3, 2025, 8:00 PM MST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Ada County, ID, Elmore County, ID, Owyhee County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:25 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 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 425 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 00:00Z on 2025-03-02Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2025-03-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.