Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
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.
- 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
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.