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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 2, 2005Emery County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2005, 2:17 PM MDT for Emery County, Utah. It was in force for 58 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
Aug 2, 2005, 2:17 PM MDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2005, 3:15 PM MDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Emery County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 2005-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 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 2005-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 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.

000 
WGUS55 KSLC 022021
FFWSLC
UTC015-022115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
217 PM MDT TUE AUG 2 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL EMERY COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 315 PM MDT

* AT 210 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER   
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL.

THIS STORM IS OVER AN AREA WITH SLICKROCK AND NARROW CANYONS. TRAVEL 
IN THIS AREA WILL BE VERY DANGEROUS THIS AFTERNOON. A FLASH FLOOD 
WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN 
THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING 
ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO 
PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING 
WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE.

LAT...LON 3926 11084 3875 11086 3881 11044 3908 11041
      3932 11052

$$

DUNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 1:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCIron, Washington64 min
Aug 2, 1:27 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCWashington2 hr
Aug 2, 1:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDuchesne64 min
Aug 2, 2:30 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield105 min
Aug 2, 3:06 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCEmery114 min
Aug 2, 3:47 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCEmery6 hr
Aug 2, 3:59 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCKane6 hr
Aug 2, 5:11 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCWashington2 hr

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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.