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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 22, 1992Kane County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 1992, 8:45 PM MDT for Kane County, Utah. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 1992, 8:45 PM MDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 1992, 9:45 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Kane County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Winslow (Autob), AZ (KINW), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 274 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, Winslow (Autob), AZ at 00:00Z on 1992-08-23Temperature 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, Winslow (Autob), AZ at 00:00Z on 1992-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSLC 230249
FFWSLC
UTC025-230345-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
845 PM MDT SAT AUG 22 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A 
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......

IN SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH

   ...EASTERN KANE COUNTY

FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING IN THE WARM CREEK DRAINAGE IN EASTERN
KANE COUNTY.  OTHER DRAINAGES IN EASTERN KANE COUNTY WILL ALSO LIKELY
BE AFFECTED BY FLASH FLOOD WATER.  TWO TO THREE FEET OF WATER WAS
REPORTED IN THE WARM CREEK DRAINAGE AT 845 PM NEAR BIG WATER.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOVE TO HIG.HER GROUND TO ESCAPE RISING WATER.

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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.