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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Pocatello, ID

March 15, 20259 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this wind advisory at Mar 15, 2025, 1:20 PM MDT for 9 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Mar 16, 2025, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 15, 2025, 1:20 PM MDT (19:20 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 16, 2025, 9:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 16, 2025, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Bannock County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Custer County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Madison County, ID, Power County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 303 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 12:00Z on 2025-03-15Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2025-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 126 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
224 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 Mar 15, 4:59 AM MDT, 8 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 4:59 AM MDT, 8 hours 21 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 15, 4:02 AM MDTWinter Storm WarningPIHBlaine, Butte, Clark, Custer, Fremont, Teton50 hr
Mar 15, 4:02 AM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryPIHBear Lake, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Caribou, Cassia and 5 more40 hr
Mar 15, 3:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIHBingham29 min

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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.