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Wind Advisory 19, NWS Pocatello, ID

May 11, 202615 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this wind advisory at May 11, 2026, 11:39 PM MDT for 15 counties in Idaho. It took effect at May 13, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 2026, 11:39 PM MDT (05:39 UTC)
In effect from: May 13, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: May 13, 2026, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID

Counties Bannock County, ID, Bingham County, ID, Blaine County, ID, Bonneville County, ID, Butte County, ID, Cassia County, ID, Clark County, ID, Custer County, ID, Fremont County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Lincoln County, ID, Madison County, ID, Minidoka County, ID, Oneida County, ID, Power County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 275 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3116 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 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 May 11, 9:13 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 9:13 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 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.