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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 1, 1996Salt Lake County, Summit County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1996, 6:10 PM MDT for Salt Lake County, Summit County, Utah. It was in force for 35 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
Aug 1, 1996, 6:10 PM MDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 1996, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Salt Lake County, UT, Summit County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 39 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 00:00Z on 1996-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 454 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 00:00Z on 1996-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 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
454 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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
Aug 1, 6:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCUtah35 min
Aug 1, 7:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCUinta32 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.