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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 4, 1991Summit County, Wasatch County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1991, 5:34 PM MDT for Summit County, Wasatch County, Utah. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 1991, 5:34 PM MDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1991, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Summit County, UT, Wasatch County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 73 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 1991-08-04Temperature 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 1991-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 6:33 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield, Wayne117 min
Aug 4, 4:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSalt Lake59 min
Aug 4, 4:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSummit55 min
Aug 4, 5:49 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCSalt Lake56 min
Aug 4, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSalt Lake56 min

Nearby

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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.