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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 15, 2001Juab County, Utah County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2001, 3:05 PM MDT for Juab County, Utah County, Utah. It was in force for 40 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 15, 2001, 3:05 PM MDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 2001, 3:45 PM MDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Juab County, UT, Utah County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 2001-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 112 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 2001-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 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
112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-308 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1927 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KSLC 152107
SVRSLC

UTC023-049-152145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
305 PM MDT SUN JUL 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN JUAB COUNTY IN UTAH
  SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 345 PM MDT

* AT 255 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTH OF SANTAQUIN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
  NORTH OF NEPHI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  7 MILES SOUTH OF SANTAQUIN AT 345 PM MDT

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY 
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.  HEAVY RAINFALL MAY HAVE 
CAUSED STREAMS AND CREEKS ON THE WEST SLOPES OF MOUNT NEBO TO FILL 
WITH WATER.  DO NOT CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING STREAMS OR CREEKS AND 
WATER OF UNKOWN DEPTH.

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 3983 11198 3970 11183 3986 11155 4002 11175

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBeaver, Iron35 min
Jul 14, 6:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCUtah39 min
Jul 14, 6:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBeaver, Iron39 min
Jul 14, 7:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBeaver, Iron42 min
Jul 14, 7:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSanpete, Sevier23 min
Jul 15, 3:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCCarbon, Duchesne, Utah50 min
Jul 15, 3:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCWasatch50 min
Jul 15, 3:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery, Sanpete, Sevier43 min
Jul 15, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Cache, Weber35 min
Jul 15, 3:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCGarfield, Kane, San Juan66 min
Jul 15, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCCarbon, Duchesne, Utah30 min
Jul 15, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery45 min
Jul 15, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCCarbon, Duchesne45 min
Jul 15, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDuchesne30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Utah, 2001Every severe thunderstorm 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.