Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Issued

Jul 25, 2002, 4:45 PM MDT (22:45 UTC)

Expired

Jul 25, 2002, 5:15 PM MDT

In force

30 min

Issued by

NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tooele County, UT

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

370 
WUUS55 KSLC 252245
SVRSLC
UTC045-252315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
443 PM MDT THU JUL 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL TOOELE COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 431 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST CENTRAL TOOELE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 32
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF WENDOVER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN IN RURAL WESTERN TOOELE COUNTY.

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.

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 4041 11377 4023 11382 4013 11329 4035 11324

NWS Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 25, 2:30 PM MDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
230 PM MDT THU JUL 25 2002

.SYNOPSIS...A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN OVER THE AREA THIS
EVENING. AN INCREASING WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL HELP DRY OUT THE AREA
FOR FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND.

.DISCUSSION...CONVECTION HAVING A HARD TIME GETTING GOING UNDER
SUBSIDENCE FROM LAST NIGHTS SHORTWAVES.  STILL EXPECT IT TO DEVELOP TO
SCATTERED COVERAGE IN THE LATE AFTERNOON/EVENING HOURS.  SHORTWAVE
MOVING THROUGH EASTERN OREGON WILL ALSO PUSH THE LOBE THAT EXTENDS FORM
EASTERN ID INTO CENTRAL NV ACROSS THE NORTHERN/CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE
AREA TONIGHT.  18Z ETA SHOWS QUITE A BIT OF ACTIVITY CONTINUING WITH
THIS IMPULSE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.  SO ALTHOUGH WILL WAIT UNTIL ISSUE
TIME TO DECIDE FOR SURE ON EVENING POPS EXPECT TO NOT CHANGE TOO MUCH
FOR TONIGHT AND TO REMOVE ANY EVENING REFERENCES FOR THE NORTHERN 2/3
OF THE AREA.  EXPECT THE MOUNTAINS TO GENERATE SCATTERED ACTIVITY
AGAIN TOMORROW BEFORE DRYING SPREADS IN.

A NORTHERN BRANCH SHORTWAVE PUSHES ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA LATE
SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY.  IT MAY PROVIDE ENOUGH HELP TO TRIGGER SOME
LIMITED CONVECTION OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS.  WILL KEEP A SLIGHT
CHANCE IN OUR ID/WY BORDER ZONES TO REFLECT THIS.  OTHERWISE THE MAIN
EFFECT WILL BE A LITTLE ADDITIONAL COOLING FOR SUNDAY INTO MONDAY.  THE
12Z PSEUDO AVN DATA FROM THE NAVY NOGAPS LOOKS LIKE THIS WOULD BE A
LITTLE SHARPER AND POSSIBLY A BIT SLOWER TROF.  BUT LITTLE CONFIDENCE
IN THAT TREND GIVEN THAT THE NOGAPS PERFORMANCE HERE HASNT BEEN VERY
GOOD.

ONCE THAT SHORTWAVE GOES WE STAY IN A DRY NORTHWEST FLOW WITH A HIGH
CENTER TO OUR WEST FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS.  THE HIGH TENDS TO DRIFT EAST
BY MIDWEEK AS ANOTHER SHORTWAVE PUSHES THROUGH THE NORTHERN GULF OF
ALASKA. THAT WILL RESULT IN SLOWLY WARMING TEMPERATURES AND BY LATE
WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY COULD BE FAR ENOUGH EAST TO LET SOME MOISTURE
START SEEPING BACK IN FROM THE SOUTH.  FOR WILL KEEP THURSDAY DRY SINCE
ANY ACTIVITY THAT MIGHT DEVELOP SHOULD STILL BE QUITE LIMITED.

SLC 3--1 CDC 3--0  SANDERS

.SLC...NONE

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Utah, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.