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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Pocatello, ID

March 7, 202613 counties in Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this wind advisory at Mar 7, 2026, 1:23 PM MST for 13 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Mar 9, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 7, 2026, 1:23 PM MST (20:23 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 9, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Mar 9, 2026, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
8 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, Fremont County, ID, Jefferson County, ID, Lincoln County, ID, Madison County, ID, Minidoka County, ID, Power County, ID, Teton County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 289 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 2026-03-07Temperature 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 2026-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 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.