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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

June 2, 2002Box Elder County, Cache County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2002, 3:09 PM MDT for Box Elder County, Cache County, Utah. It was in force for 36 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
Jun 2, 2002, 3:09 PM MDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2002, 3:45 PM MDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Box Elder County, UT, Cache County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 2002-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 289 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 12:00Z on 2002-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1048 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KSLC 022109
SVRSLC
UTC003-005-022145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
309 PM MDT SUN JUN 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL BOX ELDER COUNTY IN UTAH
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF TREMONTON
  WEST CENTRAL CACHE COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 345 PM MDT

* AT 301 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HOWELL...OR ABOUT 16 MILES WEST OF
  TREMONTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  2 MILES NORTH OF TREMONTON AT 330 PM MDT
  5 MILES NORTH OF WELLSVILLE AT 345 PM MDT

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 4189 11258 4158 11245 4157 11189 4193 11195

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 3:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Cache29 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.