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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Pocatello, ID

December 16, 202517 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this high wind warning at Dec 16, 2025, 11:19 AM MST for 17 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Dec 17, 2025, 5:00 AM MST. 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: Dec 16, 2025, 11:19 AM MST (18:19 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 17, 2025, 5:00 AM MST
Expired: Dec 17, 2025, 7:29 PM MST
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Bannock County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Blaine County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Caribou County, ID, Cassia County, ID, Clark County, ID, Custer County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Lincoln County, ID, Madison County, ID, Minidoka County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID, Teton County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 288 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at Dec 16, 5:26 AM MST, 5 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 5:26 AM MST, 5 hours 53 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 16, 11:19 AM MST	Wind Advisory	PIH	Bear Lake, Bonneville, Caribou, Franklin, Oneida	32 hr
Dec 16, 12:18 PM MST	Winter Storm Watch	PIH	Blaine, Butte, Custer	25 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.