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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 10, 19974 counties in Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1997, 9:33 PM MDT for 4 counties in Utah. It was in force for 47 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
Aug 10, 1997, 9:33 PM MDT (03:33 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1997, 10:20 PM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Davis County, UT, Morgan County, UT, Summit County, UT, Weber County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 38 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 1997-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1020 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 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
1020 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2105 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSLC 110339 RRA
SVRSLC
UTC011-029-043-057-110420-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY UT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1020 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHWESTERN UTAH

   ...DAVIS COUNTY
   ...MORGAN COUNTY
   ...WEBER COUNTY

IN NORTHERN UTAH

   ...NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY
 
AT 920 PM MDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE
THROUGH THE NORTHERN WASATCH FRONT.  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING
EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL AFFECT CITIES NORTH OF SALT LAKE
CITY...THEN THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE MOUNTAINS BY 1030 PM MDT.

MANY LOCATIONS ALONG THE WASATCH FRONT FROM CENTERVILLE TO
BRIGHAM CITY HAVE REPORTED WINDS IN THE 50 TO 70 MPH RANGE AS
THE STORMS HAVE PASSED THROUGH.  THESE WINDS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR
MANY DOWNED POWER LINES IN THE AREA.

WdINDS IN THE SALT LAKE VALLEY WILL BE IN THE 30 TO 40 MPH RANGE
...AND THE SALT LAKE VALLEY CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AS THE
STRONGEST STORMS PASS NORTH.
 

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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, 7:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder61 min
Aug 10, 8:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Davis, Weber75 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

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.