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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 2005, 12:37 PM MDT for Kane 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 19, 2005, 12:37 PM MDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2005, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kane County, UT
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 626 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 191845 FFWSLC UTC025-192130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1237 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS CONTINUED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL KANE COUNTY IN UTAH * UNTIL 330 PM MDT * AT 1232 PM MDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY RECEIVED REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING IN THE SLOT CANYONS AND TRIBUTARIES OF THE LOWER PARIA RIVER NEAR THE UTAH ARIZONA BORDER. REPORTS FROM GRAND STAIRCASE NATIONAL MONUMENT RANGERS INDICATED THE ROAD LEADING TO THE WHITE HOUSE TRAILHEAD IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANE COUNTY HAS BEEN WASHED OUT. ADDITIONALLY...FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY ON OTHER SLOT CANYONS AND TRIBUTARIES IN THE AREA. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED DUE TO CONTINUING RAINFALL IN THE AREA...IN ADDITION TO TRAVEL TIME OF CURRENT FLOOD WATERS TO PASS THE UTAH ARIZONA BORDER. 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 3700 11232 3700 11161 3734 11162 3733 11232 $$ MCINERNEY
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KSLC 192052 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 237 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 2005 UTC025-192130- KANE UT- 237 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 330 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL KANE COUNTY... RAINFALL CONTINUES OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANE COUNTY WHERE MANY SLOT CANYONS ARE NOW FLOODING. ADDITIONALLY...MANY ROADS IN THE GRAND STAIRCASE NATIONAL MONUMENT ARE ARE IMPASSABLE DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINFALL. AS A RESULT OF THE CONTINUED RAINFALL...SMALL WASHES AND SLOT CANYONS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN FLOOD THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 3700 11232 3700 11161 3734 11162 3733 11232 $$ MCINERNEY
000 WGUS75 KSLC 192129 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 324 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 2005 UTC025-192130- KANE UT- 324 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL KANE COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING ISSUED FOR CENTRAL KANE COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. RAINFALL OVER THE AREA HAS DIMINISHED...ALTHOUGH THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL REMAINS. SMALL WASHES AND SLOT CANYONS CAN BE EXPECTED TO FLOW THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. ADDITIONALLY...MANY ROADS IN THE AREA ARE IMPASSABLE DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINFALL. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS OVER SOUTHERN UTAH UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT. LAT...LON 3700 11232 3700 11161 3734 11162 3733 11232 $$ MCINERNEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 10:04 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Kane | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 1:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Washington | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Washington | 109 min |
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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.