Alert archive / Utah / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2005, 2:23 PM MDT for Duchesne County, Utah. It was in force for 38 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 23, 2005, 2:23 PM MDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2005, 3:01 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Duchesne County, UT
The radar
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 212 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -375 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2148 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KSLC 232025 TORSLC UTC013-232100- /O.NEW.KSLC.TO.W.0002.050623T2023Z-050623T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 223 PM MDT THU JUN 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL DUCHESNE COUNTY IN UTAH THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DUCHESNE * UNTIL 300 PM MDT * AT 220 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO ABOUT A MILE FROM HIGHWAY 40 AT MILE MARKER 83 NEAR DUCHESNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4023 11054 4006 11046 4013 11006 4038 11018 $$ MEJ
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS55 KSLC 232101 SVSSLC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 300 PM MDT THU JUN 23 2005 UTC013-232105- /O.EXP.KSLC.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050623T2100Z/ DUCHESNE UT- 300 PM MDT THU JUN 23 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL DUCHESNE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 300 PM MDT... THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PRODUCED THE TORNADO HAS MOVED EAST WITH NO FURTHER REPORTS OF A TORNADO. STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THIS STORM AS IT MOVES INTO UINTAH COUNTY. LAT...LON 4023 11054 4006 11046 4013 11006 4038 11018 $$ MEJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Utah | 39 min |
| Jun 23, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Salt Lake | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 4:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Kane | 26 min |
| Jun 23, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Davis, Weber | 23 min |
| Jun 23, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Kane | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Carbon, Emery | 47 min |
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.