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Wind Advisory 17, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this wind advisory at Dec 16, 2025, 11:19 AM MST for 5 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Dec 17, 2025, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for 14 hr.
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 Bear Lake County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Caribou County, ID, Franklin County, ID, Oneida County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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 199 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2336 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory 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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</html>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 | High Wind Warning | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Caribou and 11 more | 32 hr |
| Dec 16, 12:18 PM MST | Winter Storm Watch | PIH | Blaine, Butte, Custer | 25 hr |
Nearby
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.