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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 1996, 1:11 PM MDT for Garfield County, Wayne County, Utah. It was in force for 109 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1996, 1:11 PM MDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1996, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 109 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Garfield County, UT, Wayne County, UT
The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -394 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3112 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 071917 FFWSLC UTC017-055-072100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 111 PM MDT SUN JUL 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH ...CENTRAL GARFIELD COUNTY...SOUTH CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES TWO VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ONE NEAR ESCALANTE AND THE OTHER NEAR GROVER. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. HEAVY RAIN FROM THESE STORMS IS EXPECTED TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN THE NORMALLY DRY WASHES AROUND ESCALANTE AND ALSO IN CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE... ON F~OOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Jul 7, 1:01 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
UTZ005>013-080000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 100 PM MDT SUN JUL 7 1996 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN UTAH... DOPPLER RADAR AND SATELLITE INDICATE A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL UTAH...BETWEEN BRYCE CANYON AND CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARKS. THESE STORMS WILL HAVE FREQUENT LIGHTNING ASSOCIATED WITH THEM AND MAY ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THE STORMS ARE GENERALLY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10-15 MPH. HOWEVER...ONE STORM WEST OF ESCALANTE CONTINUES TO REDEVELOP RESULTING IN SLOWER MOVEMENT. SOME FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS OR NORMALLY DRY WASHES IS POSSIBLE FROM THESE STORMS. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHERN UTAH IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. HIKERS OR OTHER OUTDOOR RECREATIONISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY LIGHTNING AND FLOONDING...AND SEEK SHELTER IN A SAFE AREA IF THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE AREA. DRS...1900Z
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.