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Wind Advisory 19, NWS Pocatello, ID

December 23, 2025Cassia County, Oneida County, Power County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this wind advisory at Dec 23, 2025, 9:07 PM MST for Cassia County, Oneida County, Power County, Idaho. It took effect at Dec 24, 2025, 3:00 AM MST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 23, 2025, 9:07 PM MST (04:07 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 24, 2025, 3:00 AM MST
Expired
Dec 24, 2025, 5:00 PM MST
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Cassia County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 292 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2025-12-24Temperature 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 2025-12-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 177 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
2350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 23, 8:37 PM MST, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 8:37 PM MST, 30 minutes before
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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.