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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 18, 2007Uinta County, Wyoming

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2007, 11:16 PM MDT for Uinta County, Wyoming. It was in force for 14 min. 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 18, 2007, 11:16 PM MDT (05:16 UTC)
Expired
Aug 18, 2007, 11:30 PM MDT
In force
14 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Uinta County, WY

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:18 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 2007-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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 2007-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-271 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KSLC 190516
SVRSLC
WYC041-190530-
/O.NEW.KSLC.SV.W.0049.070819T0516Z-070819T0530Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
1116 PM MDT SAT AUG 18 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN UINTA COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WYOMING...

* UNTIL 1130 PM MDT

* AT 1114 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  NORTHWESTERN UINTA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  RANDOLPH...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL    
  AREAS OF UINTA COUNTY.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE
STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 4158 11055 4155 11071 4140 11086 4139 11092
      4137 11096 4135 11103 4157 11103 4157 11085

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS55 KSLC 190532
SVSSLC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
1132 PM MDT SAT AUG 18 2007

WYC041-190542-
/O.EXP.KSLC.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-070819T0530Z/
UINTA WY-
1132 PM MDT SAT AUG 18 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN UINTA COUNTY
EXPIRES AT 1130 PM MDT...

THE STORM IS WEAKENING SLOWLY AS IT MOVES EAST ACROSS EXTREME 
NORTHERN UINTA COUNTY. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED 
TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 4158 11055 4155 11071 4140 11086 4139 11092
      4137 11096 4135 11103 4157 11103 4157 11085

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 18, 9:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCUinta26 min
Aug 18, 9:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCUinta32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wyoming, 2007Every severe thunderstorm 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.