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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this high wind watch at Mar 10, 2026, 11:30 PM MDT for 15 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Mar 12, 2026, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2026, 11:30 PM MDT (05:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 12, 2026, 9:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2026, 1:31 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
Counties Bannock County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Blaine County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Caribou County, ID, Cassia County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Lincoln County, ID, Madison County, ID, Minidoka County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID, Teton County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:33 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 297 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
- 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
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Mar 10, 9:23 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 9:23 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 1:31 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Bonneville, Butte, Cassia, Fremont and 4 more | 31 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:31 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | PIH | Bannock, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Caribou and 7 more | 31 hr |
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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.