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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

September 4, 2007Garfield County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Sep 4, 2007, 1:29 PM MDT for Garfield 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 4, 2007, 1:29 PM MDT (19:29 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2007, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Garfield County, UT

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 293 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2007-09-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2007-09-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-284 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS55 KSLC 041932
FFWSLC
UTC017-055-042230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
129 PM MDT TUE SEP 4 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL GARFIELD COUNTY IN UTAH...
  SOUTH CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY IN UTAH...

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT

* AT 124 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE HEADWATERS OF THE 
FREMONT RIVER FLOWING INTO CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SMALL DRAINAGES FLOWING WESTWARD 
INTO CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK.  AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE THE 
GRAND WASH AND THE CAPITOL WASH IN THE PARK.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY.

LAT...LON 3791 11147 3804 11125 3827 11099 3832 11112
      3828 11154

$$

MCINERNEY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 4, 4:39 AM MDTFire Weather WatchSLC11 hr
Sep 4, 4:39 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC11 hr
Sep 4, 1:29 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield, Wayne3 hr
Sep 4, 1:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele42 min
Sep 4, 3:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder39 min
Sep 4, 3:53 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC27 hr
Sep 4, 3:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele50 min
Sep 4, 4:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Tooele38 min
Sep 4, 4:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder44 min
Sep 4, 4:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder58 min
Sep 4, 5:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Cache, Davis, Morgan, Weber30 min
Sep 4, 5:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCTooele59 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.