Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1997, 12:00 PM MDT for Wayne County, Utah. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1997, 12:00 PM MDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1997, 12:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, UT
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 12:00 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Caineville, UT | A severe thunderstorm developed in western Wayne county. A spotter in Caineville measured hailstones as large as 2" in diameter. This severe thunderstorm moved east into Hanksville about an hour later and dropped 1" diameter hail in that town. Some minor da |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1277 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
762 WUUS1 KSLC 101801 RRA SVRSLC UTC055-101845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1200 PM MDT TUE JUN 10 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY UT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH ...CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY AT 1155 AM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 17 MILES WEST OF HANKSVILLE OR 2 MILES SOUTH OF CAINEVILLE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS BUT MAY AFFECT MOTORISTS ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 24 BETWEEN CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK AND HANKSVILLE UNTIL 1240 PM. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. TAKE COVER WHEN THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 12:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Wayne | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 1:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Duchesne | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 1:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Wayne | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 2:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Davis, Salt Lake | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 2:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Tooele | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 3:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Morgan, Salt Lake, Summit | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 3:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Tooele | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 4:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Tooele | 61 min |
| Jun 10, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele | 62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.