Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Issued

Sep 23, 1992, 6:34 PM MDT (00:34 UTC)

Expired

Sep 23, 1992, 7:15 PM MDT

In force

41 min

Issued by

NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Area

Whole counties

County Salt Lake County, UT

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
634 PM MDT WED SEP 23 1992

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

IN NORTH CENTRAL UTAH

   ...NORTHERN SALT LAKE COUNTY

AT 630 PM MDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS
NORTH CENTRAL UTAH. THE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM JUST NORTH OF
LOGAN...SOUTH TO AROUND THE SALT PLANT ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE GREAT
SALT LAKE.
 
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  THIS
MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF SALT
LAKE COUNTY BY 715 PM MDT.  

AT 625 PM MDT...A WIND GUST OF 58 MPH WAS REPORTED AT THE SALT PLANT
FROM A THUNDERSTORM.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF 60-70 MPH ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN SALT
LAKE COUNTY THROUGH 715 PM THIS EVENING ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. 
VISIBILITIES MAY BE REDUCED TO NEAR ZERO FROM BLOWING DUST...
ESPECIALLY ALONG I-80 JUST SOUTH OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE.
 
MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING.  DO
NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  AVOID THE USE OF TELEPHONES AND ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AND EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LOOSE OBJECTS CAN BE DANGEROUS IF THEY BECOME AIRBORNE IN STRONG
THUNDERSTORM WINDS.  TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO TIE DOWN LOOSE OBJECTS OR
BRING THEM INDOORS.

TWM...0038Z.

In the hours before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
450 PM MDT WED SEP 23 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST UTAH...

RADAR AND LIGHTNING DETECTION EQUIPMENT INDICATES A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST UTAH.  THE LEADING EDGE OF
THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM NEAR MALAD CITY IDAHO...SOUTHWEST TO
NEAR ELY NEVADA.

THE ATMOSPHERE IS RELATIVELY DRY NEAR THE SURFACE.  THIS INCREASES
THE CHANCES FOR GUSTY MICROBURST WINDS WITH ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS.
WIND GUSTS OF 40-50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST UTAH THIS EVENING.

THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING EAST AROUND 15 MPH.  SOME OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS AND ASSOCIATED GUSTY WINDS MAY MOVE INTO THE SALT LAKE
VALLEY EARLY THIS EVENING.

TWM...2250Z.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Utah, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.