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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

May 3, 1993Utah County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1993, 7:59 PM MDT for Utah County, Utah. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 3, 1993, 7:59 PM MDT (01:59 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 1993, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Utah County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 00:00Z on 1993-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 825 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 00:00Z on 1993-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3126 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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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
May 3, 7:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele, Weber61 min
May 3, 7:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCCache61 min
May 4, 1:59 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCMillard61 min
May 4, 2:00 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCMillard38 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.