Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
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.
- 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
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
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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.