Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1995, 7:09 PM MDT for Tooele County, Utah. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1995, 7:09 PM MDT (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1995, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tooele County, UT
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3015 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 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 170113 RRA SVRSLC UTC045-170200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 709 PM MDT FRI JUN 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST UTAH ...NORTHEASTERN TOOELE COUNTY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CELL IN NORTHEASTERN TOOELE COUNTY NEAR DELLE ALONG INTERSTATE I-80 WITH STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL POSSIBLE. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. KAH/DUNN...0112Z
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, 2:55 PM MDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
UTZALL-170000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
255 PM MDT FRI JUN 16 1995
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN UTAH...
AT 250 PM MDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN LAS VEGAS SHOWED AN AREA OF
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA. THIS AREA IS MOVING
NORTHWARD AND SHOULD MOVE INTO SOUTHERN UTAH IN THE NEXT 90 MINUTES.
THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
WASHINGTON COUNTY...KANE COUNTY...AND WESTERN SAN JUAN COUNTY.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN...AND HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE IN SOUTHERN
UTAH THROUGH THIS EVENING.
RESIDENTS AND TRAVELERS THROUGH SOUTHERN UTAH SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON
THE WEATHER AND TAKE SHELTER INSIDE WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH.
RODGERS/SMITH 2055ZSpecial weather statement, Jun 16, 2:56 PM MDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
UTZALL-170000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
255 PM MDT FRI JUN 16 1995
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN UTAH...
AT 250 PM MDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN LAS VEGAS SHOWED AN AREA OF
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA. THIS AREA IS MOVING
NORTHWARD AND SHOULD MOVE INTO SOUTHERN UTAH IN THE NEXT 90 MINUTES.
THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
WASHINGTON COUNTY...KANE COUNTY...AND WESTERN SAN JUAN COUNTY.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN...AND HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE IN SOUTHERN
UTAH THROUGH THIS EVENING.
RESIDENTS AND TRAVELERS THROUGH SO:UTHERN UTAH SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON
THE WEATHER AND TAKE SHELTER INSIDE WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH.
RODGERS/SMITH 2055ZNearby
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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.