Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1996, 6:53 PM MDT for Tooele County, Utah. It was in force for 52 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 26, 1996, 6:53 PM MDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1996, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tooele County, UT
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3193 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSLC 270100
SVRSLC
UTC045-270145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
653 PM MDT MON AUG 26 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 NORTHWEST UTAH
...SOUTHERN TOOELE COUNTY
...INCLUDING THE AREA IN AND AROUND DUGWAY...
DOPPLER RADAR HAS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR DUGWAY. WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.
BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND LOCAL FLOODING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS STORM IS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 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, Aug 26, 2:04 PM MDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
UTZ-005>009-011>013-270400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 155 PM MDT MON AUG 26 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN UTAH... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHERN UTAH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH. THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO EARLY EVENING AND WILL ALSO BE DEVELOPING OVER MANY OF THE VALLEYS OF SOUTHERN UTAH. THE GENERAL MOVEMENT OF THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL BE TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST AT 10-15 MPH. SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON THERE HAVE BEEN SOME REPORTS OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN TO INCLUDE A REPORT OF .40 INCHES OF RAIN IN 30 MINUTES ENDING AT 1230 PM AT ANTIMONY WHICH IS 35 MILES NORTH OF BRYCE CANYON. IN 5- 10 MINUTES A SPOTTER IN MEADOWS...WHICH IS 7 MILES SOUTH OF FILLMORE...REPORTED .28 INCHES OF RAIN. IN THE 30 MINUTE PERIOD ENDING AT 145 PM THERE WERE TWO CENTERS OF INTENSE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...ONE WAS OVER CENTRAL GARFIELD COUNTY AND THE SECOND OVER NORTHEAST SEVIER COUNTY. THERE WILL BE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WITH SOME OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER IS APPROACHING YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER. DO NOT BECOME A HUMAN LIGHTNING ROD. CARLE...1955Z.
Local storm report, Aug 26, 5:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UTAH
500 PM MDT MON AUG 26 1996
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0240 PM FREMONT JCT. UT FLASH FLOOD.
08/26/96 SEVIER 6-8 INCHES OF WATER
COVERED I-70 ACCORDING
TO UTAH HIWAY PATROL.
SPOTTER AT FREMONT JCT
REPORTED 2.02 INCH RAIN
IN 65 MINUTES.The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 8:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Sevier | 60 min |
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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.