Alert archive / Utah / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 25, 2006, 2:44 PM MDT for Carbon County, Utah. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2006, 2:44 PM MDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2006, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Carbon County, UT
The radar
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 222 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2482 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 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 252045
FFWSLC
UTC007-252345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
244 PM MDT FRI AUG 25 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL CARBON COUNTY IN UTAH...
* UNTIL 545 PM MDT.
* AT 236 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
HEAVY RAINFALL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING FROM A
THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. RAINFALL RATES WITH THIS STORM
HAVE BEEN IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES AN HOUR.
* THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN WEST OF
PRICE. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE
NORTH AND SOUTH FORKS OF GORDON CREEK AND GARLEY CANYON.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
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 3955 11111 3954 11100 3956 11091 3969 11084
3968 11104
$$
RG2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS75 KSLC 252223
FFSSLC
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
420 PM MDT FRI AUG 25 2006
UTC007-252345-
CARBON UT-
420 PM MDT FRI AUG 25 2006
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR WEST
CENTRAL CARBON COUNTY...
AT 412 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HELPER
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL CARBON COUNTY...AND
MORE RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA IS POSSIBLE.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN SALT
LAKE CITY.
LAT...LON 3955 11111 3954 11100 3956 11091 3969 11084
3968 11104
$$
BAS000
WGUS75 KSLC 252347
FFSSLC
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
546 PM MDT FRI AUG 25 2006
UTC007-252356-
CARBON UT-
546 PM MDT FRI AUG 25 2006
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR WEST CENTRAL CARBON
COUNTY...
FLASH FLOODING HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED...HOWEVER...HEAVY RAIN FELL IN
THE NORTH AND SOUTH FORKS OF GORDON CREEK AND GARLEY CANYON AS SEVER
THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH THE AREA. USE CAUTION TRAVELING
THROUGHOUT THE AREA THIS EVENING.
LAT...LON 3955 11111 3954 11100 3956 11091 3969 11084
3968 11104
$$
GIBSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 4:25 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | 18 hr | |
| Aug 25, 2:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Davis, Morgan | 39 min |
| Aug 25, 2:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Carbon | 44 min |
| Aug 25, 3:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Emery, Sevier | 44 min |
| Aug 25, 3:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Carbon | 28 min |
| Aug 25, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Emery | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Duchesne | 32 min |
| Aug 25, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Carbon | 28 min |
| Aug 25, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Juab, Tooele | 40 min |
| Aug 25, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Emery | 59 min |
| Aug 25, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Juab, Tooele, Utah | 45 min |
| Aug 25, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Emery | 33 min |
| Aug 25, 5:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Juab, Utah, Wasatch | 49 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Utah, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006
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.