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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 16, 1996Summit County, Wasatch County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1996, 4:54 PM MDT for Summit County, Wasatch County, Utah. It was in force for 51 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, 4:54 PM MDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1996, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Summit County, UT, Wasatch County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 73 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KSLC 162300
SVRSLC
UTC051-043-162345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
454 PM MDT TUE JUL 16 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN CENTRAL UTAH

   ...NORTHERN WASATCH COUNTY

IN NORTH CENTRAL UTAH

   ...SOUTHWESTERN SUMMIT COUNTY

AT 455 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ONE WAS 5
MILES EAST OF KAMAS AND THE SECOND WAS 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HEBER
CITY.  

THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD AFFECT THE SOAPSTONE AREA IN THE WESTERN
UINTAS.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.


ERC...2259Z

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, 1:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCCache60 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.