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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Boise, ID

March 11, 20265 counties in Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this wind advisory at Mar 11, 2026, 2:44 AM MDT for 5 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Mar 12, 2026, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 11, 2026, 2:44 AM MDT (08:44 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 12, 2026, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired
Mar 12, 2026, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Camas County, ID, Elmore County, ID, Gooding County, ID, Jerome County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:43 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 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 2026-03-11Temperature 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 2026-03-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 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
1896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
130 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.