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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

May 16, 1996Box Elder County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1996, 12:00 PM MDT for Box Elder County, Utah. It was in force for 60 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
May 16, 1996, 12:00 PM MDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1996, 1:00 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Box Elder County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 1996-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 197 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 1996-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
197 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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
May 16, 12:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCFranklin42 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.