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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 29, 2002Emery County, Wayne County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 2002, 1:21 PM MDT for Emery County, Wayne County, Utah. It was in force for 54 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
Aug 29, 2002, 1:21 PM MDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2002, 2:15 PM MDT
In force
54 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 29, 1:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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 2002-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 203 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2002-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2205 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 12:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCCarbon, Duchesne32 min
Aug 29, 12:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery, Wayne47 min
Aug 29, 12:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery43 min
Aug 29, 1:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCCarbon43 min
Aug 29, 1:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery31 min
Aug 29, 2:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery, Wayne48 min
Aug 29, 3:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery, Sevier38 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.