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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Pocatello, ID

January 8, 20265 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this wind advisory at Jan 8, 2026, 1:51 AM MST for 5 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Jan 8, 2026, 6:00 AM MST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 8, 2026, 1:51 AM MST (08:51 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 8, 2026, 6:00 AM MST
Expired
Jan 8, 2026, 4:00 PM MST
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Blaine County, ID, Cassia County, ID, Minidoka County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 253 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 2026-01-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 40 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2026-01-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 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
40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1283 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
136 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 Jan 7, 10:05 PM MST, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 10:05 PM MST, 3 hours 46 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.