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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 18, 1997Rich County, Summit County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1997, 6:37 PM MDT for Rich County, Summit County, Utah. It was in force for 33 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
Jul 18, 1997, 6:37 PM MDT (00:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 1997, 7:10 PM MDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Rich County, UT, Summit County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 85 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 1997-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 669 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 1997-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 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
669 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2303 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSLC 190041 RRA
SVRSLC
UTC033-043-190110-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
637 PM MDT FRI JUL 18 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY UT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 710 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHWESTERN UTAH

   ...SOUTHERN RICH COUNTY

IN NORTHERN UTAH

   ...NORTHWESTERN SUMMIT COUNTY
 
AT 634 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
RADAR 39 MILES SOUTH OF RANDOLPH OR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAHSATCH
MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED TO CROSS I-80 AT 640 AND IN IN THE
VICINITY OF...
WAHSATCH               AT AROUND 645 PM MDT
WYUTA                  AT AROUND 700 PM MDT
 
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
Jul 19, 10:26 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCSan Juan, Wayne59 min
Jul 19, 10:26 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSan Juan, Wayne59 min
Jul 19, 1:11 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCEmery44 min
Jul 19, 1:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery44 min
Jul 19, 1:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDuchesne50 min
Jul 19, 1:56 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCEmery59 min
Jul 19, 1:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery59 min
Jul 19, 3:18 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCWayne62 min
Jul 19, 3:39 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCSan Juan, Wayne46 min
Jul 19, 4:25 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCSan Juan, Wayne35 min
Jul 19, 4:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSan Juan, Wayne35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Utah, 1997Every severe thunderstorm 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.