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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

June 1, 20026 counties in Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2002, 2:28 PM MDT for 6 counties in Utah. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 2002, 2:28 PM MDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2002, 3:15 PM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Box Elder County, UT, Davis County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Tooele County, UT, Utah County, UT, Weber County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 35 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2002-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2002-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
4442 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 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.

808 
WUUS55 KSLC 012028
SVRSLC
UTC003-011-035-045-049-057-012115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
225 PM MDT SAT JUN 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL BOX ELDER COUNTY IN UTAH
  DAVIS COUNTY IN UTAH
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LAYTON...FARMINGTON...BOUNTIFUL
  SALT LAKE COUNTY IN UTAH
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WEST VALLEY CITY...SANDY...SALT LAKE
  CITY...MURRAY
  NORTHEASTERN TOOELE COUNTY IN UTAH
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...TOOELE...GRANTSVILLE
  UTAH COUNTY IN UTAH
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PROVO...PAYSON
  SOUTHWESTERN WEBER COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 315 PM MDT

* AT 216 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH-CENTRAL TOOELE COUNTY TO 
  THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF UTAH COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...
  OVER STANSBURY PARK AT 230 PM MDT
  OVER SPANISH FORK...MAPLETON...HERRIMAN AT 235 PM MDT
  OVER SPRINGVILLE...RIVERTON...PROVO...OREM AT 240 PM MDT
  OVER WEST JORDAN...PLEASANT GROVE AT 245 PM MDT

SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED WINDS ESTIMATED TO 70 MPH WITH THESE 
THUNDERSTORMS AND SOME DAMAGE TO ROOFS AND TREES HAS ALSO BEEN 
REPORTED. 

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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 1:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCJuab, Millard, Tooele37 min
Jun 1, 1:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCJuab, Tooele, Utah41 min
Jun 1, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah, Wasatch and 1 more30 min
Jun 1, 3:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Cache, Davis, Duchesne, Morgan, Salt Lake and 3 more38 min
Jun 1, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Cache, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich, Summit and 2 more45 min
Jun 1, 4:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCRich, Summit29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Utah, 2002Every severe thunderstorm 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.