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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

June 21, 1996Duchesne County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1996, 7:52 PM MDT for Duchesne County, Utah. It was in force for 38 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, 7:52 PM MDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1996, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Duchesne County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 929 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
929 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
10.6

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 6:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Cache45 min
Jun 21, 7:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDuchesne30 min
Jun 21, 7:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCCache37 min
Jun 21, 7:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBear Lake, Franklin44 min
Jun 21, 8:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBear Lake30 min
Jun 21, 6:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCUinta39 min

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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.