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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

April 21, 1992Salt Lake County, Tooele County, Utah County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 1992, 5:08 PM MDT for Salt Lake County, Tooele County, Utah County, Utah. It was in force for 2 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 21, 1992, 5:08 PM MDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired
Apr 21, 1992, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Salt Lake County, UT, Tooele County, UT, Utah County, UT

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 21, 6:55 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 53Tooele, UT
Apr 21, 7:15 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 52Tooele, UT

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 50 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 1992-04-21Temperature 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 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 1992-04-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 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
2761 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
3 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 212321 COR
SVRSLC
UTC049-035-045-220115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HIGH WINDS ...CORRECTION....
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
508 PM MDT TUE APR 21 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HIGH WINDS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN CENTRAL UTAH

   ...UTAH COUNTY

IN NORTH CENTRAL UTAH

   ...SALT LAKE COUNTY

IN NORTHWEST UTAH

   ...EASTERN TOOELE COUNTY

A HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EASTERN TOOELE...SALT LAKE AND
UTAH COUNTIES UNTIL 715PM MDT FOR MICROBURST WINDS WITH GUSTS TO 60MPH
OR MORE WITH AREAS OF BLOWING DUST AND DEBRIS.

AT 455PM MDT A WIND GUST OF 61MPH WAS REPORTED AT SIMPSON SPRINGS
LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF DUGWAY. NUMEROUS WIND SENSORS THROUGHOUT THE
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND HAVE REPORTED WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 55 AND 60MPH
SINCE 450PM MDT.

THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20MPH.

THESE WINDS ARE USUALLY OF VERY SHORT DURATION BUT CAN BE EXTREMELY
STRONG. THEREFORE PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO MAKE SURE ANY LOOSE
MATERIAL WHICH COULD BE DAMAGED OR BECOMING AIRBORNE AND PRODUCE
DAMAGE TO PEOPLE OR OBJETS SHOULD BE SECURED.

2322Z CU

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.