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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 10, 2000Davis County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2000, 2:12 PM MDT for Davis County, Utah. It was in force for 48 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 10, 2000, 2:12 PM MDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2000, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Davis County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 29 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 2000-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 207 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 2000-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 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
207 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-282 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 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 Jul 10, 9:35 AM MDT, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 9:35 AM MDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UTAH
935 AM MDT MON JUL 10 2000

SYNOPSIS...A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL REMAIN OVER MOST OF
UTAH TODAY BUT WITH SOME DRYING BEGINNING IN THE SOUTHWEST. THE
DRYING TREND WILL CONTINUE STATEWIDE TUESDAY.

DISCUSSION...THIS AM IS SOMEWHAT ACTIVE OVER NORTHERN UTAH AND WILL
BECOME EVEN MORE SO THIS AFTERNOON.

S/WV FROM CNTRL NV WILL ROTATE NORTHEAST INTO NORTHERN UTAH LATER
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  ALONG WITH THIS FEATURE COMES LOTS OF
DYNAMICS...HAVE THE JET RIGHT OVER THIS AREA...LOTS OF SHEAR/
INSTABILITY...CAPE IS IMPRESSIVE...ALONG WITH UPPER LEVEL
DIVERGENCE.  ALL THIS SPELLS FOR A RATHER SEVERE TYPE AFTERNOON AND
EVENING OVER THE NORTH.

GOES PW CHART INDICATES AN INCH OR MORE PW OVER THE NORTH AND SOME
LESSER AMOUNTS IN THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE.

A DRIER AMS HAS SPREAD INTO SOUTHWEST UTAH AND THE DYNAMICS IS
LACKING...SO THIS WILL BE THE LEAST LIKELY AREA FOR CONVECTION.

MRF INDICATES FLOW BY THE END OF THE WEEK AGAIN FAVORABLE FOR
MONSOON CONDITIONS AS MOISTURE AND WIGGLES ROTATE AROUND THE
PERIPHERY OF THE SUBTROPICAL HIGH THAT IS SITTING OVjER CO.

HAVE UPDATED NORTHERN UTAH...SOUTHEAST IDAHO...AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING
ZONES FOR "LCLY HEAVY RAINS...HAIL...AND STRONG WINDS".

SLC 665 CDC 31-  ALDER

.SLC...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 4:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSalt Lake, Tooele, Utah32 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Utah, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.