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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Pocatello, ID
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.
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, 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.
- 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
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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 4:02 AM MDT | Winter Storm Warning | PIH | Blaine, Butte, Clark, Custer, Fremont, Teton | 50 hr |
| Mar 15, 4:02 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PIH | Bear Lake, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Caribou, Cassia and 5 more | 40 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PIH | Bingham | 29 min |
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.