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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

May 23, 1999Tooele County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1999, 2:43 PM MDT for Tooele County, Utah. It was in force for 32 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
May 23, 1999, 2:43 PM MDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1999, 3:15 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tooele County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 110 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 1999-05-23Temperature 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 1999-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-26 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 23, 10:30 AM MDT, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 10:30 AM MDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 3:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele30 min
May 23, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis30 min
May 23, 4:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Morgan, Weber29 min
May 23, 5:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Morgan, Weber32 min
May 23, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Weber26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.