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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Pocatello, ID
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.
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, 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.
- 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
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.