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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

May 30, 1996Utah County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1996, 1:59 PM MDT for Utah County, Utah. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1996, 1:59 PM MDT (19:59 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1996, 2:30 PM MDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Utah County, UT

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 30, 2:10 PM MDTHail 0.75Provo, UT

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 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 1996-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 1:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSalt Lake26 min
May 30, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder30 min
May 30, 2:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCUinta32 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.