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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 14, 1996Utah County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1996, 3:50 PM MDT for Utah County, Utah. It was in force for 25 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 14, 1996, 3:50 PM MDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 1996, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Utah County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 1996-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 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 1996-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -41 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-376 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-14 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 142154
SVRSLC
UTC049-142215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HIGH WINDS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
350 PM MDT WED AUG 14 1996

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

IN CENTRAL UTAH

   ...CENTRAL UTAH COUNTY

RADAR SHOWS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE WEST SIDE OF UTAH LAKE. 
THIS STORM WILL AFFECT UTAH LAKE DURING THE NEXT HALF HOUR WITH VERY
STRONG GUSTY WINDS. 

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT WINDS ARE IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH WITH
HIGHER GUSTS...WATCH OUT FOR FLYING DEBRIS...IF ON THE ROAD, KEEP
EYES OPEN FO|R FALLEN TREES AND BRANCHES...SECURE ALL DOORS AND
WINDOWS AND STAY INDOORS IF POSSIBLE.

BOATERS ON UTAH LAKE SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES.

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.