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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 27, 1996Salt Lake County, Utah County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1996, 3:31 PM MDT for Salt Lake County, Utah County, Utah. It was in force for 44 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 27, 1996, 3:31 PM MDT (21:31 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1996, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Salt Lake County, UT, Utah County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 1996-07-27Temperature 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 1996-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 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 272142 COR
SVRSLC
UTC049-035-272215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
331 PM MDT SAT JUL 27 1996

CORRECTION FOR PATH OF STORM

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN CENTRAL UTAH

   ...NORTHERN UTAH COUNTY

IN NORTH CENTRAL UTAH

   ...SOUTHERN SALT LAKE COUNTY

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING IN EXTREME
NORTHWEST UTAH COUNTY ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF LEHI AT 325 PM.  THE
STORM IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.  THIS WILL BRING IT
INTO SOUTHERN SALT LAKE COUNTY BY 4 PM.  TOWNS IN ITS PATH INCLUDE
HERRIMAN AND SOUTH JORDAN. 

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 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.

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 27, 2:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
UTZALL-280000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
220 PM MDT SAT JUL 27 1996

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS UTAH THIS AFTERNOON...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE AGAIN DEVELOPED OVER UTAH THIS
AFTERNOON.  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING VERY SLOWLY AND ALTHOUGH THE
RAINFALL RATE IS NOT EXCESSIVE...THEY MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN
AND SMALL HAIL.  WHILE MOST OF THE STORMS WERE OVER THE MOUNTAINS
DURING THE MID AFTERNOON HOURS...THEY WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND
SPREAD OVER MANY VALLEY LOCATIONS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING.  AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN UTAH ARE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THE
HEAVIEST RAIN FROM THESE STORMS.

PERSONS ACROSS THE STATE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.  IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE DURING A THUNDERSTORM...SEEK SHELTER
IN A STRONG BUILDING...BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  SOME OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS OR
LOW SPOTS6 ON ROADS.  NORMALLY DRY WASHES MAY BE RUNNING OR COULD FILL
RAPIDLY FROM HEAVY RAINS IN THE AREA.  CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD BE
PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING BEGINS TO
DEVELOP.

DAR...2015Z

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.