Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1996, 1:10 PM MDT for Duchesne County, Summit County, Utah. It was in force for 110 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
- Jun 21, 1996, 1:10 PM MDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1996, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 110 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Duchesne County, UT, Summit County, UT
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 1:40 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Coalville, 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 4 hours 6 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 58 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, 12:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Juab, Sanpete, Utah | 47 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 |
| Jun 21, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Bear Lake | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 2:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Uinta | 28 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.