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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

September 4, 2007Davis County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Sep 4, 2007, 6:58 PM MDT for Davis 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, 6:58 PM MDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2007, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Davis County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 29 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 2007-09-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 2007-09-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-316 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3456 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KSLC 050059
FFWSLC
UTC011-050400-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL DAVIS COUNTY IN UTAH...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FARMINGTON...

* UNTIL 1000 PM MDT

* AT 654 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
INTENSE RAINFALL FROM A THUNDERSTORM THAT IS MOVING TOWARD THE 
FARMINGTON BURN SCAR.  THE INTENSITY OF RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM MAY 
PRODUCE A DEBRIS FLOW.

PEOPLE LIVING BELOW THE FARMINGTON BURN SCAR SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS 
TO ENSURE THEIR SAFETY.

LAT...LON 4091 11187 4092 11182 4100 11185 4101 11189

$$


MCINERNEY
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS75 KSLC 050222
FFSSLC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
816 PM MDT TUE SEP 4 2007

UTC011-050400-
DAVIS UT-
816 PM MDT TUE SEP 4 2007

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FARMINGTON BURN SCAR HAS BEEN 
CANCELED...

AT 812 PM MDT...INTENSE RAINFALL THAT HAD FALLEN OVER THE FARMINGTON 
BURN SCAR HAS DIMINISHED.  THE VOLUME OF RAINFALL DID NOT PRODUCE A 
DEBRIS FLOW...AND AS A RESULT...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THAT 
AREA HAS BEEN CANCELED.

LAT...LON 4091 11187 4092 11182 4100 11185 4101 11189

$$


MCINERNEY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 4, 6:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Salt Lake, Tooele47 min
Sep 4, 7:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCJuab, Tooele, Utah, Wasatch41 min
Sep 4, 7:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCCache, Davis, Morgan, Weber46 min
Sep 4, 7:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Morgan, Salt Lake, Summit, Utah, Wasatch48 min
Sep 4, 7:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCJuab, Tooele, Utah, Wasatch46 min
Sep 4, 8:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDuchesne, Morgan, Rich, Summit, Wasatch47 min
Sep 5, 12:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCEmery50 min
Sep 5, 1:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCMorgan, Summit51 min
Sep 5, 1:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCCarbon, Emery49 min
Sep 5, 1:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCMorgan, Rich, Summit56 min
Sep 5, 4:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCUtah29 min
Sep 5, 4:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCJuab, Tooele, Utah30 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.