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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Pocatello, ID

March 24, 20268 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this wind advisory at Mar 24, 2026, 11:06 AM MDT for 8 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Mar 25, 2026, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 24, 2026, 11:06 AM MDT (17:06 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 25, 2026, 9:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 25, 2026, 7:25 PM MDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Bingham County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Clark County, ID, Custer County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Madison County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:09 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 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 306 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 12:00Z on 2026-03-24Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2026-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
320 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.