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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 16, 1996Cache County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1996, 1:15 PM MDT for Cache 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
Jul 16, 1996, 1:15 PM MDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1996, 2:15 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Cache County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 33 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-288 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 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
Jul 16, 10:26 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele64 min
Jul 16, 11:30 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele60 min
Jul 16, 12:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder56 min
Jul 16, 12:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Tooele66 min
Jul 16, 1:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Weber60 min
Jul 16, 1:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele66 min
Jul 16, 2:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele60 min
Jul 16, 3:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah85 min
Jul 16, 4:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSummit, Wasatch51 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.