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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 1, 1996Uinta County, Wyoming

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1996, 7:13 PM MDT for Uinta County, Wyoming. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 1996, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 1996, 7:45 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Uinta County, WY

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KSLC 020115
SVRSLC
WYC041-020145-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
713 PM MDT THU AUG 1 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST WYOMING

   ...SOUTHWESTERN UINTA COUNTY

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY
ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EVANSTON.  THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 25-30 MPH.  IT WILL MOVE ACROSS OR JUST SOUTH OF EVANSTON ABOUT
730 PM. 

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.

WCJIN-WYSW

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.