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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 27, 2002Emery County, Wayne County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2002, 3:31 PM MDT for Emery County, Wayne County, Utah. It was in force for 59 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, 3:31 PM MDT (21:31 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2002, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Emery County, UT, Wayne County, UT

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 217 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 272131
FFWSLC
UTC015-055-272230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL EMERY COUNTY IN UTAH
  NORTH CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT

* AT 314 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL EMERY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF HANKSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS WARNING IS A CONTINUATION AND EXPANSION OF THE PREVIOUSLY 
ISSUED FLASH FLOOD WARNING.  WHILE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL 
DECREASE...FLOOD WATERS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE DOWN THE MUDDY RIVER INTO THE 
DIRTY DEVIL RIVER.

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.

LAT...LON 3864 11093 3851 11105 3840 11085 3848 11068

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, 2:08 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCEmery82 min

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.