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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 24, 2002Kane County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2002, 5:07 PM MDT for Kane County, Utah. It was in force for 113 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 2002, 5:07 PM MDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2002, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kane County, UT

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2002-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 176 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2002-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
176 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1290 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KSLC 242307
FFWSLC
UTC025-250100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
505 PM MDT WED JUL 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN KANE COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 456 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALTON...OR ABOUT 26 MILES NORTH OF KANAB.
   THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

HEAVY RAIN FALLING IN UPPER KANAB CREEK AND THE HEADWATERS OF 
JOHNSON CANYON WILL PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING DURING THE NEXT 2 HOURS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.

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 3722 11262 3706 11249 3707 11222 3718 11205
          3752 11248

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 2:13 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield2 hr
Jul 24, 2:55 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield110 min
Jul 24, 4:05 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield115 min
Jul 24, 4:26 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCBeaver, Iron119 min
Jul 24, 4:28 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCIron92 min
Jul 24, 4:34 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCIron86 min
Jul 24, 4:56 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Utah, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.