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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

May 16, 1995Salt Lake County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 2:53 PM MDT for Salt Lake County, Utah. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1995, 2:53 PM MDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1995, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Salt Lake County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 13 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 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 162102
SVRSLC
UTC035-162200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HIGH WINDS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
253 PM MDT TUE MAY 16 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HIGH WINDS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL UTAH

   ...SALT LAKE COUNTY

AT 250 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RECEIVED TWO REPORTS OF HAIL
3/4 INCH TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH /SALT LAKE
CITY/.

THERE IS LITTLE MOVEMENT WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

THE TOWNS IN THE PATH WILL BE IN EASTERN SALT LAKE COUNTY.

HIGH WINDS CAN CAUSE DANGEROUS CROSS-WINDS AND MAKE HANDLING VEHICLES
DIFFICULT.  TRAVELERS WITH LIGHTWEIGHT OR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES
SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN WIND GUSTS THAT COULD MAKE DRIVING
HAZARDOUS.

OMAI 2101Z

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, May 16, 12:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
UTZALL-170530-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
1215 PM MDT TUE MAY 16 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS OVER UTAH TODAY....

AN UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER NORTHERN BAJA MEXICO WILL BE MOVING
NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS ARIZONA IMPORTING MORE MOISTURE INTO THE BEEHIVE
STATE.

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN NORTHEASTERN UTAH THIS MORNING.
DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP IN
SOUTHERN UTAH.  SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD PRODUCE STRONG
GUSTY WINDS WITH POSSIBLE HAIL.

PERSONS PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SUCH AS PICNICS OR CAMPING SHOULD
BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY DETERIORATING WEATHER CONDITIONS INCLUDING STRONG
WINDS...HEAVY SHOWERS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND HAIL.  PLEASE TAKE
COVER WHEN THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

OMAI 1815Z

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.