Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Issued

Jul 15, 2001, 4:15 PM MDT (22:15 UTC)

Expired

Jul 15, 2001, 4:45 PM MDT

In force

30 min

Issued by

NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Carbon County, UT, Duchesne County, UT, Utah County, UT

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 241 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

000 
WUUS55 KSLC 152215
SVRSLC
UTC015-152245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN EMERY COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 500 PM MDT

* AT 357 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CLAWSON...OR ABOUT 32 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  MANTI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUNTINGTON AT 445 PM MDT

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...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 3914 11126 3896 11100 3929 11058 3944 11091

NWS Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 15, 3:28 PM MDT, 47 minutes earlier.

UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
328 PM MDT SUN JUL 15 2001

SYNOPSIS...INCREASING SOUTHWEST FLOW OVER UTAH THE NEXT FEW DAYS
WILL BRING A LESS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY BUT INCREASING AFTERNOON
WINDS.

DISCUSSION...WARNINGS STARTING WITH 1 INCH HAIL JUST REPORTED
BETWEEN NEPHI AND PROVO. STRONG UPDRAFTS WITH A FEW ORGANIZED ENOUGH
FOR SEVERE HAIL. WARNING GOING OUT FOR CELL NEAR SCOFIELD. 300 MB
JET OVER SOUTHERN UTAH WILL INTENSIFY MONDAY. DRYING TREND WILL
CONTINUE TOMORROW AND TRIMMING BACK SHOWERS TO THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS
AND EASTERN BASINS. MAY SEE A SHALLOW BOUNDARY PUSH INTO NORTHERN
UTAH ABOUT WEDNESDAY EVENING...RETREATING BACK NORTH THURSDAY
EVENING. FOR NOW NOT INDICATING MUCH TREND IN TEMPERATURES THROUGH
DAY SEVEN.  BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS EACH AFTERNOON WESTERN
VALLEYS AND AIRMASS BECOMING INCREASINGLY DRY.

SLC 3111 CDC 1111  GIBSON

.SLC...NONEW.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Utah, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.