Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 7:14 PM MDT for Tooele County, Utah. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 7:14 PM MDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tooele County, UT
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 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 190117 SVRSLC UTC045-190200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 714 PM MDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST UTAH ...NORTHEASTERN TOOELE COUNTY AT 710 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRANTSVILLE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER INTERSTATE 80 IN THE AREA FROM DELLE TO LOW. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN 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, May 18, 3:52 PM MDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
UTZALL-190500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 350 PM MDT THU MAY 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER UTAH ESPECIALLY NORTHERN UTAH LATE THIS AFTERNOON... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER UTAH LATE THIS AFTERNOON ESPECIALLY OVER NORTHERN UTAH. DOPPLER RADAR IN SALT LAKE CITY AND SATELLITE PICTURES INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE STATE. THE MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS GENERALLY TO THE EASE-SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...AND GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 40 MPH WITH SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OCCURRING OVER SOUTHERN UTAH BUT THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT WINDS OR RAINFALL. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER THE STATE THROUGH THIS EVENING...ESPECIALLY OVER NORTHERN UTAH. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN UTAH MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS. THOSE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADAR OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMdENT...AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. CARLE...2150Z
Special weather statement, May 18, 6:29 PM MDT, 45 minutes before
UTZALL-190500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 630 PM MDT THU MAY 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL UTAH... THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED ACROSS NORTHERN UTAH EARLIER TODAY IS NOW LOCATED ACROSS THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE. AT 615 PM DOPPLER RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATED THE AREA OF STRONG STORMS WAS OVER THE WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF UTAH IN AN AREA BOUNDED BY PRICE AND DELTA ON THE NORTH TO INTERSTATE 70 AND MILFORD ON THE SOUTH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF DELTA AND WILL PROBABLY PASS OVER THE LITTLE SAHARA SAND DUNES AREA BETWEEN 7 AND 8 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD THE EAST WITH A LITTLE SOUTHWARD DRIFT. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN UTAH BUT ARE GENERALLY MUCH WEAKER WITH BRIEF RAIN SHOWERS AND MODERATE WIND GUSTS. THOSE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES IN CENTRAL UTAH SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. DRS...0030Z
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.