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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 25, 1998Salt Lake County, Tooele County, Utah County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1998, 12:34 PM MDT for Salt Lake County, Tooele County, Utah County, Utah. It was in force for 56 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
Aug 25, 1998, 12:34 PM MDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 1998, 1:30 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Salt Lake County, UT, Tooele County, UT, Utah County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 32 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 1998-08-25Temperature 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 1998-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2737 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 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.

657 
WUUS1 KSLC 251837 RRA
SVRSLC
UTC035-045-049-251930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
1234 PM MDT TUE AUG 25 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

   * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
     EXTREME EAST CENTRAL TOOELE COUNTY IN UTAH
     NORTHWESTERN UTAH COUNTY IN UTAH
     SOUTHERN SALT LAKE COUNTY IN UTAH

   * UNTIL 130 PM MDT

   * AT 1233 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
     A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HERRIMAN...OR ABOUT
     12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOOELE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER
     HOUR.

   * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SOUTH JORDAN...
     RIVERTON...SUNDANCE...PLEASANT GROVE...ALPINE...AMERICAN FORK...
     COPPERTON...HOLLADAY...BLUFFDALE...HERRIMAN...SANDY...LEHI AND
     DRAPER

   * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
     9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HERRIMAN AT 1245 PM MDT
     3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLUFFDALE AT 105 PM MDT
     2 MILES SOUTH OF DRAPER AT 120 PM MDT

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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 4054 11219 4025 11219 4036 11155 4047 11165
          4079 11165

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 1:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Morgan, Weber59 min
Aug 25, 1:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSalt Lake59 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.