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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1996, 10:26 AM MDT for Tooele County, Utah. It was in force for 64 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
- Jul 16, 1996, 10:26 AM MDT (16:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1996, 11:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tooele County, UT
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2027 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 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, Jul 16, 5:46 AM MDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 11:30 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Tooele | 60 min |
| Jul 16, 12:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Box Elder | 56 min |
| Jul 16, 12:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Box Elder, Tooele | 66 min |
| Jul 16, 1:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Davis, Weber | 60 min |
| Jul 16, 1:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Cache | 60 min |
| Jul 16, 1:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Tooele | 66 min |
| Jul 16, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Tooele | 60 min |
| Jul 16, 3:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah | 85 min |
| Jul 16, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Summit, Wasatch | 51 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.