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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

June 10, 1997Wayne County, Utah

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 10, 12:00 PM MDTHail 2Caineville, UTA 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 1997-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 87 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 1997-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 12:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCWayne48 min
Jun 10, 1:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDuchesne45 min
Jun 10, 1:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCWayne45 min
Jun 10, 2:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Salt Lake47 min
Jun 10, 2:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele62 min
Jun 10, 3:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCMorgan, Salt Lake, Summit48 min
Jun 10, 3:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele41 min
Jun 10, 4:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele61 min
Jun 10, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Salt Lake, Tooele63 min
Jun 10, 5:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Salt Lake, Tooele62 min

Nearby

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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.