Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1996, 12:43 PM MDT for Juab County, Sanpete County, Utah County, Utah. It was in force for 47 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
- Jun 21, 1996, 12:43 PM MDT (18:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1996, 1:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Juab County, UT, Sanpete County, UT, Utah County, UT
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 2304 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 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 211849 RRA SVRSLC UTC039-049-023-211930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1243 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL UTAH ...SAN PETE COUNTY...EASTERN UTAH COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL UTAH ...EASTERN JUAB COUNTY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR SAN PETE COUNTY AND THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES ARE BEING EXTENDED UNTIL 130 PM. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ALONG THE MOUNTAINS FROM NEAR THE JUAB-SAN PETE COUNTY LINE NORTHEAST INTO UTAH COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. LARGE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH SEVERAL OF THESE STORMS AND RADAR INDICATES LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE FROM SOME OF THE STORMS IN THE WARNING AREA. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE 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, Jun 21, 9:04 AM MDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
UTZ004-005-008-012-013-211700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 905 AM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN UTAH... A NUMBER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER EASTERN UTAH THIS MORNING. AT 850 AM THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER EASTERN EMERY AND WESTERN GRAND COUNTIES EXTENDING SOUTHWEST ACROSS HANKSVILLE TO NEAR BOULDER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT MORE THAN 40 MPH. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 6 NORTH OF WADSET AND PASS JUST EAST OF THE CENOSITE/EAST CARBON CITY AREA BY 930 AM. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. ALTHOUGH \THERE MAY BE A TEMPORARY DECREASE IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY DURING THE LATE MORNING HOURS...ADDITIONAL STORMS...POSSIBLY STRONG...ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON. DRS...1503Z
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 9:12 AM MDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
UTZ004-005-008-012-013-211700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 905 AM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN UTAH... CORRECTION FOR CITY NAMES THAT GOT GARBLED A NUMBER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER EASTERN UTAH THIS MORNING. AT 850 AM THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER EASTERN EMERY AND WESTERN GRAND COUNTIES EXTENDING SOUTHWEST ACROSS HANKSVILLE TO NEAR BOULDER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT MORE THAN 40 MPH. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 6 NORTH OF WOODSIDE AND PASS JUST EAST OF THE SUNNYSIDE/EAST CARBON CITY AREA BY 930 AM. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. ALTHOUGH THERE MAY BE A TEMPORARY DECREASE IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY DURING THE LATE MORNING HOURS...ADDITIONAL STORMS...POSSIBLY STRONG...ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON. DRS.~..1503Z
The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Duchesne | 36 min |
| Jun 21, 11:43 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Juab, Utah | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 12:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Sanpete | 41 min |
| Jun 21, 12:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Wasatch | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Summit | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 1:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Duchesne, Summit | 110 min |
| Jun 21, 1:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Morgan, Rich | 94 min |
| Jun 21, 1:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Sanpete, Utah | 85 min |
| Jun 21, 2:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Utah, Wasatch | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 2:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Morgan, Rich | 33 min |
| Jun 21, 3:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Duchesne | 59 min |
| Jun 21, 3:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Rich | 34 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Utah, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.