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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 30, 1998Weber County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1998, 5:59 PM MDT for Weber County, Utah. It was in force for 31 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 30, 1998, 5:59 PM MDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1998, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Weber County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 54 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 1998-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 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 1998-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 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
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-357 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 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 29, 6:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder43 min
Jul 29, 7:00 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCSanpete75 min
Jul 29, 7:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Salt Lake42 min
Jul 29, 8:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Morgan, Salt Lake39 min
Jul 30, 4:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDuchesne, Summit, Wasatch50 min
Jul 30, 4:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBeaver, Iron53 min
Jul 30, 4:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery43 min
Jul 30, 5:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Weber52 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.