Alert archive / Idaho / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1998, 2:01 PM MDT for Franklin County, Idaho. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 1998, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1998, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Franklin County, ID
The radar
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2:34 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Preston, ID |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
173
WUUS1 KSLC 262003 RRA
SVRSLC
IDC041-UTC003-005-262045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
201 PM MDT WED AUG 26 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
FRANKLIN COUNTY IN IDAHO
NORTHERN CACHE COUNTY IN UTAH
EXTREME NORTHEASTERN BOX ELDER COUNTY IN UTAH
INCLUDING TREMONTON...LOGAN AND PRESTON
* UNTIL 245 PM MDT
* AT 151 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PLYMOUTH...OR ABOUT 16
MILES NORTH OF TREMONTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE NORTH LOGAN...MENDON...
LEWISTON...CLARKSTON...TRENTON...SMITHFIELD...PLYMOUTH...
RICHMOND...WESTON AND FRANKLIN
LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE 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.
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 4199 11227 4167 11227 4165 11148 4232 11168
4227 11208The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Bear Lake, Franklin | 64 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.