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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

December 5, 1995Utah County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 5, 1995, 9:13 PM MST for Utah County, Utah. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 5, 1995, 9:13 PM MST (04:13 UTC)
Expired
Dec 5, 1995, 10:00 PM MST
In force
47 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 00:00Z, 4.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 1995-12-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 1995-12-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 217 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1633 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
333 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSLC 060420
SVRSLC
UTC049-051-035-043-060500-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
913 PM MST TUE DEC 5 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN CENTRAL UTAH

   ...NORTHERN UTAH COUNTY...NORTHERN WASATCH COUNTY

IN NORTH CENTRAL UTAH

   ...SOUTHERN SALT LAKE COUNTY...SUMMIT COUNTY

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE WASATCH FRONT AND
NORTHERN UTAH MOUNTAINS.  STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 60 MPH WILL ACCOMPANY
THESE THUNDERSTORMS.  

IN THE MOUNTAINS ABOVE 6000 FEET WINDS WILL CAUSE SNOW TO BLOW4 AND BRIEF
BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WILL EXIST.

THIS STORM HAS TOPPLED TREES IN WEBER COUNTY AND RIPPED SHINGLES OFF A
ROOFS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 5, 8:33 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCMorgan, Summit42 min
Dec 5, 8:33 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCWeber42 min
Dec 5, 9:13 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSalt Lake, Summit, Wasatch47 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.