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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 5, 1998Juab County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1998, 12:27 PM MDT for Juab County, Utah. It was in force for 43 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, 12:27 PM MDT (18:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1998, 1:10 PM MDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Juab County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 197 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 1998-07-05Temperature 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 1998-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 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
4068 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 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.

986 
WUUS1 KSLC 051828 RRA
SVRSLC
UTC023-051910-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
1227 PM MDT SUN JUL 5 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

   * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
     EASTERN JUAB COUNTY IN UTAH
     INCLUDING NEPHI

   * UNTIL 110 PM MDT

   * AT 1217 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
     A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MILLS...OR ABOUT 24
     MILES EAST OF DELTA...MOVING NORTH AT 50 MILES PER HOUR.

   * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MILLS AND LEVAN

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN SALT LAKE CITY.

LAT...LON 3936 11217 3935 11198 3976 11166 3977 11206

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, 8:27 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCIron, Kane, Washington63 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.