Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2005, 5:27 PM MDT for Iron County, Utah. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 2, 2005, 5:27 PM MDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2005, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- 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), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 309 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KSLC 022326 SVRSLC UTC021-030000- /O.NEW.KSLC.SV.W.0021.050602T2327Z-050603T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 527 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN IRON COUNTY IN UTAH * UNTIL 600 PM MDT * AT 521 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES WEST OF PAROWAN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF CEDAR CITY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF PARAGONAH BY 550 PM MDT IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 3804 11315 3775 11311 3781 11263 3812 11265 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS55 KSLC 022342 SVSSLC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 541 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005 UTC021-030000- /O.CON.KSLC.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050603T0000Z/ IRON UT- 541 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR NORTHEASTERN IRON COUNTY... AT 535 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SUMMIT...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF CEDAR CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PARAGONAH BY 555 PM MDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. FLASH FLOODING AND ROCKSLIDES ARE POSSIBLE ALONG STATE ROUTE 143 FROM PAROWAN TO BRIAN HEAD. LAT...LON 3804 11315 3775 11311 3781 11263 3812 11265 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Garfield, Iron | 32 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.