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Flash Flood Warning 21, 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, 6:15 PM MDT for Davis County, Morgan County, Weber County, Utah. It was in force for 30 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, 6:15 PM MDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1998, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
30 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 00:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 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 00:00Z on 1998-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1136 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 1998-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 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
1136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 6:30 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCDavis, Morgan, Weber15 min
Jul 26, 9:21 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCBox Elder54 min
Jul 27, 1:25 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCBox Elder65 min
Jul 27, 2:10 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield, Iron, Kane2 hr
Jul 27, 2:51 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCWashington3 hr
Jul 27, 5:37 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCIron, Washington83 min
Jul 27, 5:47 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCIron, Washington73 min

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.