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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 5, 1998Iron County, Kane County, Washington County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1998, 8:27 AM MDT for Iron County, Kane County, Washington County, Utah. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1998, 8:27 AM MDT (14:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1998, 9:30 AM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Iron County, UT, Kane County, UT, Washington County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 245 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 1998-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 1998-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3389 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
186 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.

819 
WUUS1 KSLC 051430 RRA
SVRSLC
UTC021-025-053-051530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
827 AM MDT SUN JUL 5 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

   * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
     SOUTH CENTRAL IRON COUNTY IN UTAH
     WASHINGTON COUNTY IN UTAH
     WESTERN KANE COUNTY IN UTAH
     INCLUDING ST GEORGE AND CEDAR CITY

   * UNTIL 930 AM MDT

   * AT 820 AM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
     SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOQUERVILLE...OR ABOUT
     19 MILES NORTHEAST OF ST GEORGE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES PER
     HOUR.

   * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ORDERVILLE...
     WASHINGTON...TOQUERVILLE...SANTA CLARA...HILDALE...NEW
     HARMONY...SPRINGDALE...BERYL...ENTERPRISE...KANARRAVILLE...MT
     CARMEL...GUNLOCK...NEWCASTLE...HURRICANE AND ZION NP

   * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
     4 MILES NORTH OF NEW HARMONY AT 850 AM MDT
     9 MILES NORTHWEST OF KANARRAVILLE AT 905 AM MDT
     10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CEDAR CITY AT 920 AM MDT

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



LAT...LON 3723 11397 3681 11319 3719 11248 3786 11315
          3791 11368

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 7:38 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCWashington52 min
Jul 5, 11:02 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCGarfield28 min
Jul 5, 11:14 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCGarfield21 min
Jul 5, 12:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSevier28 min
Jul 5, 12:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCJuab43 min
Jul 5, 2:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSummit, Wasatch41 min
Jul 5, 3:08 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCKane62 min
Jul 5, 3:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCKane62 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.