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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

June 6, 1997Tooele County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1997, 4:44 PM MDT for Tooele County, Utah. It was in force for 36 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
Jun 6, 1997, 4:44 PM MDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1997, 5:20 PM MDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Tooele County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 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 062253
SVRSLC
UTC045-062320-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
444 PM MDT FRI JUN 6 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY UT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 520 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN UTAH

   ...SOUTHEASTERN TOOELE COUNTY
 
AT 443 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
RADAR 31 MILES SOUTH OF TOOELE OR 3 MILES NORTH OF VERNON MOVING
NORTH AT 10 MPH.

THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.

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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.