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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2005, 3:56 PM MDT for Emery County, Utah. It was in force for 64 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
- Jul 24, 2005, 3:56 PM MDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2005, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 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), 201 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 242159
FFWSLC
UTC015-242300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
356 PM MDT SUN JUL 24 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL EMERY COUNTY IN UTAH
* UNTIL 500 PM MDT
* AT 349 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* THE LOCATION OF THIS WARNING IS IN A RURAL AREA JUST WEST OF SR 24
AND JUST SOUTH OF I-70 WEST OF GREEN RIVER.
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY
RAIN IN AN AREA BORDERED BY SR 24 TO THE EAST AND I-70 TO THE NORTH.
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 3873 11063 3874 11044 3890 11034 3892 11048
3888 11060
$$2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KSLC 242234 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 431 PM MDT SUN JUL 24 2005 UTC015-242300- EMERY UT- 433 PM MDT SUN JUL 24 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL EMERY COUNTY... AT 430 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. THE INITIAL THUNDERSTORM THAT BROUGHT THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS WEAKENED. HOWEVER...A SECOND STORM HAS MOVED INTO THE WARNING AREA FROM THE WEST...AND COULD PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 3873 11063 3874 11044 3890 11034 3892 11048 3888 11060 $$
000 WGUS75 KSLC 242308 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 505 PM MDT SUN JUL 24 2005 UTC015-242330- EMERY UT- 505 PM MDT SUN JUL 24 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL EMERY COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ALLOWED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL EMERY COUNTY TO EXPIRE AT 500 PM. AT 458 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SLOWLY EAST ALONG THE I-70 CORRIDOR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...BUT NORTH OF THE NOW EXPIRED FLASH FLOOD WARNING AREA. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...WILL MOVE THROUGH EAST CENTRAL UTAH THIS EVENING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH...WHICH INCLUDES EMERY COUNTY...BEEN ISSUED AND WILL BE IN EFFECT THROUGH MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT FLOODING IS POSSIBLE BUT NOT IMMINENT IN THE WATCH AREA. LAT...LON 3873 11063 3874 11044 3890 11034 3892 11048 3888 11060 $$
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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.