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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

September 12, 1998San Juan County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 1998, 11:43 AM MDT for San Juan County, Utah. It was in force for 17 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
Sep 12, 1998, 11:43 AM MDT (17:43 UTC)
Expired
Sep 12, 1998, 12:00 PM MDT
In force
17 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County San Juan County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 212 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 1998-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 67 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 1998-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 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
67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 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.

622 
WUUS1 KSLC 121745 RRA
SVRSLC
UTC037-121800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
1143 AM MDT SAT SEP 12 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

   * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
     NORTHEASTERN SAN JUAN COUNTY IN UTAH

   * UNTIL NOON MDT

   * AT 1139 AM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
     A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF LA SAL...OR ABOUT 22
     MILES NORTH OF MONTICELLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER
     HOUR.

HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

SALT LAKE CITY.

LAT...LON 3844 10930 3813 10928 3804 10908 3843 10908

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 12, 2:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSan Juan26 min
Sep 12, 2:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Salt Lake41 min
Sep 12, 2:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSan Juan18 min
Sep 12, 3:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCUtah38 min
Sep 12, 3:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSummit39 min
Sep 12, 3:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCUtah41 min
Sep 12, 5:10 PM MDTTornado WarningSLCDavis, Weber35 min
Sep 12, 5:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Weber40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Utah, 1998Every severe thunderstorm 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.