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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 30, 1992Salt Lake County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this tornado warning at Aug 30, 1992, 2:23 PM MDT for Salt Lake County, Utah. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 30, 1992, 2:23 PM MDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 1992, 2:55 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Salt Lake County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 13 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 1992-08-30Temperature 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 1992-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3164 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 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 302024
TORSLC
UTC035-302100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
223 PM MDT SUN AUG 30 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL UTAH
 
   ...WESTERN SALT LAKE COUNTY
 
AT 217 PM MDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY SEVERAL RELIABLE SOURCES JUST
EAST OF THE KENNECOTT MINE IN THE WESTERN PART OF SALT LAKE COUNTY.
IT WAS ALSO REPORTED TO BE ABOUT 200 YARDS IN DIAMETER AT THE
BASE...WITH ONLY LITTLE MOVEMENT TOWARDS THE SOUTHSOUTHEAST.
 
PERSONS IN THE WESTERN PART OF SALT LAKE COUNTY SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY
ACTION TO AVOID THE EFFECTS OF THIS TORNADO.
 
FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.
 
PRINGLE...2022Z.
 
 
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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.