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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

June 21, 1996Bear Lake County, Idaho

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1996, 8:15 PM MDT for Bear Lake County, Idaho. It was in force for 30 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, 8:15 PM MDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1996, 8:45 PM MDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Bear Lake County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSLC 220219
SVRSLC
IDC007-220245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
815 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS EXTENDED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO

   ...BEAR LAKE COUNTY

AT 815 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ST
CHARLES.

THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE ST
CHARLES...DINGLE...AND ALTON.  

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  

ERC...0219Z

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 7:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBear Lake, Franklin44 min
Jun 21, 7:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBear Lake37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.