Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 1995, 5:30 PM MDT for Utah County, Utah. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 4, 1995, 5:30 PM MDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 1995, 6:02 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 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
- 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 TTAA00 KSLC 042331 RRA SVRSLC UTC049-050020- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 530 PM MDT MON SEP 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 620 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL UTAH ...SOUTHERN UTAH COUNTY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS OVER EASTERN JUAB COUNTY WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN UTAH COUNTY AROUND 540 PM. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM REMAINS EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH. ELBERTA...GOSHEN AND GENOLA ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. 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.
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, 4 hours 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 55 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, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Juab | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Utah, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.