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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 26, 2002Garfield County, San Juan County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2002, 3:01 PM MDT for Garfield County, San Juan County, Utah. It was in force for 29 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 26, 2002, 3:01 PM MDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 2002, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Garfield County, UT, San Juan County, UT

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 254 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 2002-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 79 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 2002-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
79 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 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.

333 
WUUS55 KSLC 262101
SVRSLC
UTC017-037-262130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
259 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN GARFIELD COUNTY IN UTAH
  WEST CENTRAL SAN JUAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST UTAH

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 253 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF TICABOO...OR ABOUT 44 MILES
  EAST OF ESCALANTE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER TICABOO AT 305 PM MDT

THIS WARNING INCLUDES LAKE POWELL NORTH OF BULLFROG MARINA.  THE 
STORM IS EXPECTED TO CROSS THE LAKE BETWEEN 5 AND10 MILES NORTH OF 
BULLFROG ABOUT 315 PM. 

STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM AND LARGE HAIL AND 
HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL 
THE STORM PASSES.

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 3776 11082 3756 11092 3746 11059 3768 11041

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 8:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCCache24 min
Jul 26, 1:38 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield112 min
Jul 26, 2:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCGarfield46 min
Jul 26, 3:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCMillard38 min
Jul 26, 3:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCMillard36 min
Jul 26, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBeaver, Millard45 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.