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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 10, 1997Salt Lake County, Utah County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1997, 10:03 PM MDT for Salt Lake County, Utah County, Utah. It was in force for 42 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, 10:03 PM MDT (04:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1997, 10:45 PM MDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Salt Lake County, UT, Utah County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 44 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 110408 RRA
SVRSLC
UTC035-049-110445-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
1003 PM MDT SUN AUG 10 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY UT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHWESTERN UTAH

   ...SALT LAKE COUNTY
   ...NORTHERN UTAH COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM MDT FOR
SALT LAKE COUNTY AND NORTHERN UTAH COUNTY FOR WINDS IN EXCESS OF
60 MPH.

AS OF 1000 PM...WINDS HAVE GUSTED TO 60 MPH IN WEST JORDAN AND 49
MPH AT THE SALT LAKE AIRPORT.

BRIEF HEAVY RAINS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS SEVERE STORM...AND HAIL IS
POSSIBLE.
 

&

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, 9:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Morgan, Summit, Weber47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.