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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

June 28, 1996Salt Lake County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1996, 2:20 PM MDT for Salt Lake County, Utah. It was in force for 40 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 28, 1996, 2:20 PM MDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1996, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Salt Lake County, UT

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 28, 2:30 PM MDTHail 0.75South Jordan, 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

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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 1996-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1189 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 9:36 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder54 min
Jun 28, 11:45 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele60 min
Jun 28, 2:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder45 min
Jun 28, 4:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Cache40 min
Jun 28, 5:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCFranklin35 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.