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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

June 13, 1997Tooele County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 5:11 PM MDT for Tooele County, Utah. It was in force for 29 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 13, 1997, 5:11 PM MDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1997, 5:40 PM MDT
In force
29 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, 11.2 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 1997-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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 1997-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 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 132318
SVRSLC
UTC045-132340-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
511 PM MDT FRI JUN 13 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY UT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 540 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN UTAH

   ...NORTH CENTRAL TOOELE COUNTY
 
AT 508 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
RADAR 42 MILES WEST OF TOOELE OR 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLIVE MOVING
NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL AFFECT I-80 BETWEEN MILE MARKER 40 AND 55
WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

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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.