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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 12, 1997Tooele County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 1997, 10:54 PM MDT for Tooele County, Utah. It was in force for 61 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 12, 1997, 10:54 PM MDT (04:54 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 1997, 11:55 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Tooele County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Elko, NV at 00:00Z on 1997-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 241 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Elko, NV at 00:00Z on 1997-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 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
241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 12, 10:05 PM MDT, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UTAH
1005 PM MDT TUE AUG 12 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0139 PM    GREEN RIVER               UT   70 MPH TSTM GUST
08/12/97   EMERY                          SEMI-TRAILER OVERTURNED ON
                                          I-70

0410 PM    KANOSH                    UT   .75 INCH HAIL
08/12/97   MILLARD

0530 PM    DUGWAY MCHL AAF           UT   66 MPH TSTM GUST
08/12/97   TOOELE

0555 PM                              UT   .75 INCH HAIL
08/12/97   TOOELE                         REPORTED AT JOHNSON PASS
                                          (11NEDUGWAY)
Local storm report, Aug 12, 10:10 PM MDT, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UTAH
1005 PM MDT TUE AUG 12 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0139 PM    GREEN RIVER               UT   70 MPH TSTM GUST
08/12/97   EMERY                          SEMI-TRAILER OVERTURNED ON
                                          I-70

0410 PM    KANOSH                    UT   .75 INCH HAIL
08/12/97   MILLARD

0530 PM    DUGWAY MCHL AAF           UT   66 MPH TSTM GUST
08/12/97   TOOELE

0555 PM                              UT   .75 INCH HAIL
08/12/97   TOOELE                         REPORTED AT JOHNSON PASS
                                      r    (11_NE_DUGWAY)

The office that day

Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 8:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Davis, Weber61 min
Aug 12, 10:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele61 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Utah, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.