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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 2005, 2:48 PM MDT for Emery County, Utah. It was in force for 57 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 25, 2005, 2:48 PM MDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2005, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 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), 223 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KSLC 252050 FFWSLC UTC015-252145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 248 PM MDT MON JUL 25 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL EMERY COUNTY IN UTAH * UNTIL 345 PM MDT * AT 241 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL EMERY COUNTY. FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING IN SADDLE HORSE CANYON AND MOLEN SEEP WASH WHERE IT FLOWS INTO THE SAN RAFAEL RIVER. * THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. 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 3896 11085 3897 11070 3910 11071 3911 11086 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS75 KSLC 252120 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 319 PM MDT MON JUL 25 2005 UTC015-252145- EMERY UT- 319 PM MDT MON JUL 25 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 345 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL EMERY COUNTY... AT 316 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING IN SADDLE HORSE CANYON...CANE WASH AND SURROUNDING AREAS. THE WATER IS FLOWING NORTH TOWARDS THE SAN RAFAEL RIVER. THIS THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 3896 11085 3897 11070 3910 11071 3911 11086 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 1:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Duchesne | 42 min |
| Jul 25, 3:39 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Iron | 66 min |
| Jul 25, 3:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Emery | 60 min |
| Jul 25, 4:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Iron | 60 min |
| Jul 25, 5:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Emery | 27 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.