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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 27, 2002Emery County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2002, 2:08 PM MDT for Emery County, Utah. It was in force for 82 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 27, 2002, 2:08 PM MDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2002, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
82 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Emery County, UT

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 231 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2002-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 71 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2002-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
71 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 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 
WGUS55 KSLC 272008
FFWSLC
UTC015-272130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
208 PM MDT SAT JUL 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN EMERY COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 204 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER SOUTHWESTERN EMERY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 31 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF LOA...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

THIS STORM IS OVER THE MUDDY CREEK DRAINAGE IN THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL 
ABOUT 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF HANKSVILLE. THE RUNOFF WILL MOVE SLOWLY 
DOWNSTREAM TOWARD HANKSVILLE. 

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 3877 11124 3860 11127 3850 11088 3865 11085

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery42 min
Jul 26, 6:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery37 min
Jul 27, 1:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery21 min
Jul 27, 2:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery44 min
Jul 27, 3:31 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCEmery, Wayne59 min

Nearby

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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.