Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 1995, 4:49 PM MDT for Juab County, Utah. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 4, 1995, 4:49 PM MDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 1995, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Juab County, UT
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KSLC 042255 RRB SVRSLC UTC023-042330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 449 PM MDT MON SEP 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL UTAH ...EASTERN JUAB COUNTY AT 455 PM SALT LAKE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS OVER CENTRAL JUAB COUNTY WAS NOW ENDING INTO EASTERN JUAB COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH. EUREKA...SILVER CITY AND ELBERTA AND LITTLE SAHARA RECREATION AREA ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, Sep 4, 1:30 PM MDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
UTZALL-050200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 130 PM MDT MON SEP 4 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER NORTHWEST UTAH THIS AFTERNOON... A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WAS OVER NORTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST NEVADA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST UTAH. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15-20 MPH AND WILL BE OVER NORTHWEST UTAH THROUGH AT LEAST EARLY TONIGHT. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR LOCAL HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS FROM THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE OUT AND ABOUT IN NORTHWEST UTAH THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT... KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. ERC...1930Z WWUS35KRNO 0KW
Special weather statement, Sep 4, 1:35 PM MDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
UTZALL-050200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 130 PM MDT MON SEP 4 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER NORTHWEST UTAH THIS AFTERNOON... A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WAS OVER NORTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST NEVADA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST UTAH. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15-20 MPH AND WILL BE OVER NORTHWEST UTAH THROUGH AT LEAST EARLY TONIGHT. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR LOCAL HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS FROM THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE OUT AND ABOUT IN NORTHWEST UTAH THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT... KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKYZ AND BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. ERC...1930Z
The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 4:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Juab | 41 min |
| Sep 4, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Utah | 32 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.