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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 24, 2007Rich County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2007, 6:22 PM MDT for Rich County, Utah. It was in force for 113 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 2007, 6:22 PM MDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2007, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Rich County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 109 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 2007-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2007-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1750 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 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 250025
FFWSLC
UTC033-250215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
622 PM MDT TUE JUL 24 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN RICH COUNTY IN UTAH...

* UNTIL 815 PM MDT

* AT 618 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY LEAD TO A FLASH FLOOD. WATERWAYS EXPECTED 
TO FLOOD INCLUDE THE SOUTH AND NORTH FORK OF THE BEAR RIVER...DUCK 
CREEK AND SAGE CREEK LOCATED IN RICH COUNTY.

* THIS THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF 
RICH COUNTY.

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 4178 11129 4166 11122 4174 11104 4198 11104

$$

SMITH/MCINERNEY
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS75 KSLC 250125
FFSSLC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
720 PM MDT TUE JUL 24 2007

UTC033-250215-
RICH UT-
720 PM MDT TUE JUL 24 2007

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM MDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL RICH COUNTY...

AT 712 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL 
THAT FELL OVER EAST CENTRAL RICH COUNTY HAS MOVED NORTHWARD.  
HOWEVER...RUNOFF FROM THE INTENSE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO FLOW 
THROUGH THE AREA FOR UNTIL 815 PM THIS EVENING.

THE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO FLOW THROUGH MAINLY RURAL 
AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL RICH COUNTY.

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 4178 11129 4166 11122 4174 11104 4198 11104

$$

MCINERNEY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 3:46 PM MDTFlash Flood WatchSLC8 hr
Jul 25, 4:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSummit38 min
Jul 25, 4:43 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCTooele3 hr
Jul 25, 5:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Salt Lake47 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Utah, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007

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.