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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 281
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 16, 2005, 1:05 PM PDT for White Pine County, Nevada; 15 counties in Utah. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2005, 1:05 PM PDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2005, 9:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties White Pine County, NV, Beaver County, UT, Box Elder County, UT, Cache County, UT, Davis County, UT, Juab County, UT, Millard County, UT, Morgan County, UT, Piute County, UT, Rich County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Sanpete County, UT, Sevier County, UT, Tooele County, UT, Utah County, UT, Weber County, UT
The radar
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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.
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2:29 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | White Pine | 61 min |
| May 16, 2:45 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Box Elder | 30 min |
| May 16, 3:14 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Box Elder, Tooele | 46 min |
| May 16, 3:27 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | White Pine | 59 min |
| May 16, 3:56 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Box Elder, Tooele | 34 min |
| May 16, 4:59 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Juab, Millard, Morgan and 4 more | 31 min |
| May 16, 5:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Juab, Millard, Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah | 30 min |
| May 16, 6:06 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Beaver, Iron | 24 min |
| May 16, 6:29 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Beaver, Iron, Washington | 31 min |
| May 16, 6:59 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane, Washington | 31 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 11:29 AM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Elko, Eureka, White Pine | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Utah, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nevada, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005
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.