Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Issued

Aug 21, 2001, 4:46 PM MDT (22:46 UTC)

Expired

Aug 21, 2001, 5:15 PM MDT

In force

29 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), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

403 
WUUS55 KSLC 212247
SVRSLC
UTC035-049-212315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
446 PM MDT TUE AUG 21 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 438 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BLUFFDALE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  SANDY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  2 MILES EAST OF WEST JORDAN AT 500 PM MDT
  5 MILES WEST OF SANDY AT 505 PM MDT
  2 MILES WEST OF MIDVALE AT 510 PM MDT
  2 MILES SOUTH OF TAYLORSVILLE...2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MURRAY...4
  MILES EAST OF KEARNS...6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WEST VALLEY CITY AT 515
  PM MDT

SPOTTER REPORTS OF 70 MPH AND 74 MPH HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THIS 
STORM.  LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN UTAH.

LAT...LON 4037 11217 4042 11172 4071 11173 4072 11211

NWS Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 21, 4:30 PM MDT, 16 minutes earlier.

UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
430 PM MDT TUE AUG 21 2001

SYNOPSIS...ALTHOUGH THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE DRYING SOMEWHAT
TODAY...THERE WILL BE ENOUGH MOISTURE REMAINING FOR DEVELOPMENT OF
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA...WITH THE
APPROACH OF A SHORT WAVE TROUGH. DRYING WILL CONTINUE FROM THE WEST
ON WEDNESDAY.

DISCUSSION...MODELS INDICATE DRIER AIR MOVING INTO THE AREA FROM THE
SOUTHWEST TODAY.  HOWEVER...A SHORT WAVE TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO MOVE
INTO EASTERN NEVADA BY THIS AFTERNOON PROVIDING DYNAMICS OVER
MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA. THE GREATEST INSTABILITY IS EXPECTED OVER
THE NORTH ASSOCIATED WITH THE 300 MB JET. THUNDERSTORMS COULD GET
QUITE STRONG AND INDICATIONS ARE THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE
POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. I
TRIED TO INDICATE THIS POSSIBILITY WITH A MENTION OF STRONG GUSTY
WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHWEST TODAY. THE
ATMOSPHERE SHOULD CONTINUE TO DRY FROM THE WEST ON WEDNESDAY...BUT
THERE WILL STILL BE ENOUGH MOISTURE OVER THE EAST FOR LOW CHANCES OF
THUNDERSTORMS.

IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD...DRY CONDITIONS SHOULD PERSIST AS THE HIGH
REMAINS FAR TO THE SOUTH AND WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT CONTINUES.
TEMPERATURES SHOULD REMAIN NEAR NORMAL AS THE MAIN TROUGH OVER THE
NORTHWEST KEEPS THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE FROM DEVELOPING THROUGH
FRIDAY.  BY SATURDAY RIDGING RETURNS TO THE WEST AND HEIGHTS AND
TEMPERATURES ALOFT BEGIN TO RISE.  HOWEVER THE ATMOSPHERE IS
EXPECTED TO REMAIN DRY THROUGH AT LEAST MONDAY.

SLC 3311 CDC 321- TORONTO

.SLC...NONE.

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.