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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

May 25, 2000Uinta County, Wyoming

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 9:16 PM MDT for Uinta County, Wyoming. It was in force for 29 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
May 25, 2000, 9:16 PM MDT (03:16 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2000, 9:45 PM MDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Uinta County, WY

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 313 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 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
313 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2062 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

091 
WFUS55 KSLC 260318
TORSLC
WYC041-260345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
916 PM MDT THU MAY 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL UINTA COUNTY IN WYOMING
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LYMAN

* UNTIL 945 PM MDT

* AT 915 PM MDT...THE UINTA COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED A     
  DEVELOPING TORNADO SOUTHWEST OF LYMAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4136 11052 4117 11045 4118 11008 4140 11010

WCJIN-WYSW

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.