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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

September 8, 2002Davis County, Salt Lake County, Tooele County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2002, 5:00 AM MDT for Davis County, Salt Lake County, Tooele County, Utah. It was in force for 40 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
Sep 8, 2002, 5:00 AM MDT (11:00 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 2002, 5:40 AM MDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Davis County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Tooele County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 42 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 00:00Z on 2002-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 197 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 2002-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 219 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
197 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 6:07 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Morgan, Weber28 min
Sep 8, 1:58 PM MDTTornado WarningSLCSanpete32 min
Sep 8, 2:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCKane, San Juan26 min
Sep 8, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCKane, San Juan45 min
Sep 8, 3:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCKane, San Juan39 min
Sep 8, 5:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery23 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.