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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 10, 1997Box Elder County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1997, 7:29 PM MDT for Box Elder County, Utah. It was in force for 61 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
Aug 10, 1997, 7:29 PM MDT (01:29 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1997, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Box Elder County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 10, 8:40 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 58(Bmc)Brigham City Ar, UT

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

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 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 00:00Z on 1997-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 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 00:00Z on 1997-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 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 110134 RRA
SVRSLC
UTC003-110230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
729 PM MDT SUN AUG 10 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY UT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN UTAH

   ...NORTHEASTERN BOX ELDER COUNTY
 
AT 724 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
RADAR 33 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRIGHAM CITY OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
PORTAGE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
PORTAGE                AT AROUND 750 PM MDT
WASHAKIE               AT AROUND 755 PM MDT
PLYMOUTH               AT AROUND 800 PM MDT

THIS STORM WILL ALSO AFFECT I-15 NORTH OF TREMONTON

LARGE HAIL AND WINDS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Tooele55 min
Aug 10, 7:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Tooele
Aug 10, 7:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Tooele60 min
Aug 10, 8:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Davis, Weber75 min
Aug 10, 9:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Morgan, Summit, Weber47 min
Aug 10, 10:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSalt Lake, Utah42 min
Aug 11, 3:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder46 min
Aug 11, 3:43 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield3 hr
Aug 11, 5:59 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield46 min
Aug 11, 5:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCGarfield46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.