Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Issued

Apr 14, 2000, 12:43 PM MDT (18:43 UTC)

Expired

Apr 14, 2000, 1:30 PM MDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Salt Lake County, UT, Utah County, UT

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

052 
WUUS55 KSLC 141846
SVRSLC
UTC035-049-141930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
1243 PM MDT FRI APR 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SALT LAKE COUNTY IN UTAH
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...MURRAY...SALT LAKE CITY...SANDY...
  WEST VALLEY CITY
  NORTHWESTERN UTAH COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 130 PM MDT

* AT 1245 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR            
  INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS JUST WEST OF SLAT LAKE AND NORTHERN 
  UTAH COUNTIES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE IN 
THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...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 4074 11219 4028 11207 4045 11165 4083 11189

NWS Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 14, 10:25 AM MDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.

UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UTAH
1025 AM MDT FRI APR 14 2000

SYNOPSIS...A COLD FRONT STRETCHING FROM NORTHEAST TO WEST CENTRAL
UTAH THIS MORNING WILL MOVE TO THE FOUR CORNERS BY THIS EVENING. A
MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL BRING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO
MOST OF UTAH THROUGH MIDDAY SATURDAY. A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL
MOVE IN ACROSS THE STATE LATER SATURDAY AND REMAIN THROUGH SUNDAY.

DISCUSSION...LARGE UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE CWA
TODAY/TONIGHT AS THE CLOSED CIRCULATION OPENS INTO A PROGRESSIVE
SHORTWAVE.  TWO MAIN VORTICITY IMPULSES ROTATING THROUGH THE LOW
WITH ONE OVER NORTHERN UTAH AND THE OTHER APPROACHING SOUTHERN CA.
IT ALSO LOOKS LIKE A VORTICITY LOBE EXTENDING FROM CENTRAL NV TOWARD
LAS ROTATING SLOWLY NORTHWARD.  NO QUESTION THERE WILL BE WIDESPREAD
CONVECTION OVER THE AREA TODAY.  THE PARTIAL CLEARING BEHIND THE
NORTHERN UT IMPULSE WILL JUST ALLOW SUNSHINE TO ADD FUEL TO THE FIRE
AHEAD OF THE NV LOBE.  THE SNOW ADVISORY FOR THE MOUNTAINS LOOKS
FINE.  LOCAL AREAS COULD APPROACH WARNING LEVELS BUT WITH THE
CONVECTIVE NATURE OF THE EVENT WIDESPREAD HEAVY SNOW IS NOT LIKELY.
FORECASTS HANDLE ALL OF THIS QUITE WELL AND NO UPDATES EXPECTED AT
THIS TIME.  THE MAIN CONCERN IS IF THERE IS A CHANCE OF SOME OF THE
STORMS GETTING NEAR SEVERE LEVELS.  THE NEW ETA SUGGESTS THERE WILL
BE PLENTY OF SHEAR OVER MOST OF UT THROUGH MIDDAY AND OVER THE AREAS
EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON.  CAPE AND LIFTED INDEX
FORECASTS ARE NOT WILD BUT THE ADDED SUNSHINE COULD SHIFT BOTH OF
THESE TOWARD THE UNSTABLE SIDE.  SO WE WILL HAVE TO MONITOR THE
SITUATION CLOSELY.  SHORT TERM/RADAR SHIFT IS ON BOARD FOR THIS
AFTERNOON.

SLC +72 CDC 651 SANDERS

.SLC...SNOW ADVISORY TODAY INTO TONIGHT...IDZ025-UTZ007>010.

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

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.