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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 400

June 10, 199717 counties in Utah; Uinta County, Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 10, 1997, 3:15 PM MDT for 17 counties in Utah; Uinta County, Wyoming. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1997, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1997, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Box Elder County, UT, Carbon County, UT, Davis County, UT, Duchesne County, UT, Emery County, UT, Juab County, UT, Millard County, UT, Morgan County, UT, Rich County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Sanpete County, UT, Sevier County, UT, Summit County, UT, Tooele County, UT, Utah County, UT, Wasatch County, UT, Weber County, UT, Uinta County, WY

Warnings issued inside it

6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 3:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele41 min
Jun 10, 4:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele61 min
Jun 10, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Salt Lake, Tooele63 min
Jun 10, 5:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Salt Lake, Tooele62 min
Jun 10, 6:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCWeber29 min
Jun 10, 6:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCWeber29 min

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
875 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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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.