Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1994, 5:30 PM MDT for Utah County, Utah. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1994, 5:30 PM MDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1994, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 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 12:00Z, 11.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSLC 262333 RRA SVRSLC UTC049-270000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HIGH WINDS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 530 PM MDT THU MAY 26 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HIGH WINDS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL UTAH ...UTAH COUNTY STRONG THUNDERSTORM GENERATED WINDS GUSTING TO 73 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED BY WEATHER SPOTTERS ON THE BYU CAMPUS AT ABOUT 525 PM. THIS STRONG WIND GUST WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD ACROSS UTAH COUNTY OVER THE NEXT HALF HOUR BUT SHOULD ALSO GRADUALLY WEAKEN AS IT SPREADS OUT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 26, 3:45 PM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
UTZALL-260100-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
345 PM MDT THU MAY 26 1994
...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER UTAH'S MOUNTAINS...
STRONG DAYTIME HEATING HAS SPAWNED WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
OVER UTAH'S MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON. THE GREATEST CONCENTRATION OF
STORMS WERE OVER THE SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS NORTH OF CEDAR CITY AND THE
MOUNTAINS AROUND THE SALT LAKE CITY METRO AREA. WEAK WINDS ALOFT
WILL KEEP THE STORMS CLOSE TO THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT VALLEYS.
BECAUSE DAYTIME HEATING IS SUPPORTING THE THUNDERSTORMS, EXPECT THEM
TO DECREASING AROUND SUNSET THIS EVENING. ALL OF THE COMMON
HAZARDOUS SUCH AS SMALL HAIL, BRIEF HEAVY RAIN, GUSTY WINDS AND
CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY WHEN THUNDERSTORMS STRIKE TO AVOID THE
DANGERS OF THE PREVIOUSLY MENTION WEATHER HAZARDS. IF OUTDOOR, SEEK
SHELTER IN A VEHICLE OR LOW LYING AREAS. A<VOID LONE TREES OR OTHER
SOLITARY OBJECTS THAT CAN ATTRACT LIGHTNING STRIKES.
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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.