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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 26, 1998Davis County, Morgan County, Weber County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 1998, 5:18 PM MDT for Davis County, Morgan County, Weber County, Utah. It was in force for 57 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 26, 1998, 5:18 PM MDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1998, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

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

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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 12:00Z, 11.3 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 12:00Z on 1998-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 86 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 1998-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 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 262325 RRA
FFWSLC
UTC011-029-057-270015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
518 PM MDT SUN JUL 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

   * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
     SOUTH CENTRAL WEBER COUNTY IN UTAH
     WEST CENTRAL MORGAN COUNTY IN UTAH
     NORTHEASTERN DAVIS COUNTY IN UTAH
     INCLUDING MORGAN

   * UNTIL 615 PM MDT

   * AT 515 PM MDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN IN MOUNTAIN 
GREEN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MORGAN.  ALSO DOPPLER RADAR 
INDICATES HEAVY RAINS OCCURRING FROM NEAR HUNTSVILLE TO THE MORGAN 
VALLEY.  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 5 MILES PER 
HOUR.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. 
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE 
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS 
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY F>OOT OR BY 
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK 
HIGHER GROUND.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 7:13 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCEmery, Garfield, San Juan, Wayne2 hr
Jul 25, 9:15 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield, San Juan, Wayne8 hr
Jul 25, 9:15 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCEmery8 hr
Jul 25, 9:53 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCEmery2 hr
Jul 26, 12:39 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCSanpete, Sevier2 hr
Jul 26, 1:00 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCSan Juan3 hr
Jul 26, 5:00 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCKane2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Utah, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.