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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 14, 2001Morgan County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2001, 4:47 PM MDT for Morgan County, Utah. It was in force for 103 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
Jul 14, 2001, 4:47 PM MDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2001, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
103 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Morgan County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 2001-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 328 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 2001-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 199 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
328 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-290 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2484 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
253 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KSLC 142250
FFWSLC
UTC029-150030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
447 PM MDT SAT JUL 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MORGAN COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT

* AT 438 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER EXTREME NORTHEASTERN MORGAN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 21 MILES   
  WEST OF EVANSTON.

FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY OCCURRING IN LOST CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES 
OF MORGAN COUNTY.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID
CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN&
SALT LAKE CITY.

LAT...LON 4133 11142 4131 11142 4122 11135 4134 11131
          4137 11138

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 2:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCKane, Washington45 min
Jul 14, 2:19 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCTooele101 min
Jul 14, 4:12 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCTooele88 min
Jul 14, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCKane44 min
Jul 14, 5:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Tooele42 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Utah, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.