Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1995, 12:53 PM MDT for Iron County, Washington County, Utah. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1995, 12:53 PM MDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1995, 1:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Iron County, UT, Washington County, UT
The nearest sounding before it
Ely/Yelland Fld, NV (KELY), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 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 161854 RRA SVRSLC UTC021-053-162000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1253 PM MDT FRI JUN 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST UTAH ...WESTERN IRON COUNTY...WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY A THUNDERSTORM OVER ST GEORGE PRODUCED A WIND GUST TO 60 MPH AT THE ST GEORGE AIRPORT. THIS THUNDERSTORM AND OTHERS IN THE AREA ARE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTH AT 35 MPH AND WILL AFFECT WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AND MOVE INTO WESTERN IRON COUNTY WITHIN 30 MINUTES. CITIES AFFECTED BY THIS WARNING INCLUDE ST GEORGE...VEJO...GUNLOCK... ENTERPRISE... AND NEWCASTLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. SMITH...1853Z &
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, Jun 16, 12:11 PM MDT, 42 minutes before
UTZALL-100000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1215 PM MDT FRI JUN 16 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHWEST UTAH... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHERN ARIZONA AND SOUTHWEST UTAH AHEAD OF A WEATHER SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH CALIFORNIA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHWEST UTAH FOR THE REST OF TODAY SPREADING INTO THE REST OF THE STATE LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. RAINFALL OF UP TO .50 OF AN INCH IN AN HOUR...HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL OCCUR WITH SOME THUNDERSTORMS. LARGER AMOUNTS MAY OTCCUR IN LOCALIZED AREAS. RESIDENTS AND TRAVELERS THROUGH UTAH AND ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHWEST UTAH SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE WEATHER AND TAKE SHELTER INSIDE WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. SMITH...1809Z
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 12:15 PM MDT, 38 minutes before
UTZALL-100000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1215 PM MDT FRI JUN 16 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHWEST UTAH... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHERN ARIZONA AND SOUTHWEST UTAH AHEAD OF A WEATHER SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH CALIFORNIA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHWEST UTAH FOR THE REST OF TODAY SPREADING INTO THE REST OF THE STATE LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. RAINFALL OF UP TO .50 OF AN INCH IN AN HOUR...HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL OCCUR WITH SOME THUNDERSTORMS. LARGER AMOUNTS MAY OCCUR IN LOCALIZED AREAS. RESIDENTS AND TRAVELERS THROUGH UTAH AND ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHWEST UTAH SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE WEATHER AND TAKE SHELTER INSIDE WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. SMITH...1809Z
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.