Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1995, 5:25 PM MDT for Salt Lake County, Utah County, Utah. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 1995, 5:25 PM MDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 1995, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Salt Lake County, UT, Utah County, UT
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -461 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2453 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 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 122333 COR SVRSLC UTC035-049-130000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 525 PM MDT SAT AUG 12 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL UTAH ...NORTHERN UTAH COUNTY...SOUTHERN SALT LAKE COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR AT 525 PM SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF LEHI. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDrOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Aug 12, 2:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
UTZALL-162300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
210 PM MDT SAT AUG 12 1995
...THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN AND EASTERN UTAH...
SALT LAKE AND LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADARS AT 140 PM MDT SHOW SEVERAL
THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN AND EASTERN UTAH. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS
WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE GREATEST CONCENTRATION OF STORMS
WAS OVER THE SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE STATE. STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OUT OF NORTHWEST ARIZONA THROUGH SOUTH
CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED JUST TO
THE EAST OF THE ST. GEORGE AREA.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER OR MOVE INTO STATE THE
REST OF THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL
AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHERN AND
CENTRAL UTAH.
REMEMBER...THE BEST PROTECTION FROM THE HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH
THUNDERSTORMS IS INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. IF STORMS DO APPROACH YOUR
AREA SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
MCCCd RSTORMS DO APPROACH YOUR
AREA SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
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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.