Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
145 PM MDT SAT AUG 3 1991

 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWESTERN UTAH THIS AFTERNOON...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOP OVER MUCH OF SOUTHWESTERN UTAH
EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE ALONG THE
NEVADA/UTAH BORDER FROM ABOUT 70 MILES SOUTH OF WENDOVER TO JUST
NORTHWEST OF MILFORD.  ANOTHER AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE
OVER THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS FROM JUST EAST OF CEDAR CITY TO NEAR
MANTI UTAH.  ALL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AROUND
15 MPH.

RADAR INDICATES THAT THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING LIGHT TO MODERATE
AMOUNTS OF RAIN.  BECAUSE OF THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...
RAINFALLS IN THE ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH RANGE ARE POSSIBLE IN A
SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.  THESE RAINFALLS COULD PRODUCE SOME LOCALIZED
FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING.

THESE STORMS ARE ALSO PRODUCING FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING.
IF STORMS APPROACH...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY TO AVOID BEING STRUCK
BY LIGHTNING.

THIS AFTERNOONS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHWARD
THROUGH THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REACH THE WASATCH FRONTt
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL STILL BE PACKING FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND
BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALLS.

FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL ISSUED AS NECESSARY.

MCC...1945Z