Alert archive / Utah / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2005, 5:03 PM MDT for Iron County, Utah. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 8, 2005, 5:03 PM MDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2005, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Iron County, UT
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 287 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KSLC 082310 FFWSLC UTC021-090200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 503 PM MDT MON AUG 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL IRON COUNTY IN UTAH * UNTIL 800 PM MDT * AT 457 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. * THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT CEDAR CITY AND STATE ROUTE 14 EAST OF CEDAR CITY. FLASH FLOODING FROM COAL CREEK HAS DEVELOPED ALONG STATE ROUTE 14 EAST OF CEDAR CITY. RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL AND NUMEROUS DEBRIS SLIDES ARE CREATING DEBRIS DAMS WHICH ARE DIVERTING THE CREEK ONTO THE HIGHWAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA AGAIN BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BRING ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WHICH WILL FURTHER AGGRAVATE THE EXISTING FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING ALONG COAL CREEK COULD MOVE INTO CEDAR CITY EARLY THIS EVENING. 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 3763 11307 3756 11288 3762 11287 3771 11308 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KSLC 090039 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 640 PM MDT MON AUG 8 2005 UTC021-090200- IRON UT- 640 PM MDT MON AUG 8 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL IRON COUNTY... THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL IRON COUNTY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM. THE IRON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTS COAL CREEK STILL RUNNING HIGH FROM EARLIER HEAVY RAINS. ADDITIONAL DEBRIS SLIDES OR HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 800 PM COULD CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING ALONG STATE ROUTE 14 IN THE MOUNTAINS EAST OF CEDAR CITY BACK WEST INTO THE TOWN OF CEDAR CITY. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 3763 11307 3756 11288 3762 11287 3771 11308 $$
000 WGUS75 KSLC 090201 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 800 PM MDT MON AUG 8 2005 UTC021-090210- IRON UT- 800 PM MDT MON AUG 8 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL IRON COUNTY EXPIRES AT 800 PM MDT... THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL IRON COUNTY EXPIRED AT 800 PM MDT. COAL CREEK REMAINS HIGH FROM EARLIER HEAVY RAINS AND DEBRIS SLIDES...BUT IS NOT EXPECTED TO INCREASE AGAIN AS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS ARE NOT EXPECTED THIS EVENING. LAT...LON 3763 11307 3756 11288 3762 11287 3771 11308 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 4:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Washington | 5 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:59 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Washington | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.