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Special Weather Statement, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 6, 2009Duchesne County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2009, 2:42 PM MDT for Duchesne County, Utah. It was in force for 48 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 6, 2009, 2:42 PM MDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 2009, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT

County Duchesne County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 199 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 212 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 2009-08-06Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2009-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2876 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 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.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 6, 10:44 AM MDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 10:44 AM MDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 7:07 AM MDT, 7 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
707 AM MDT THU AUG 6 2009

UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-071300-
CACHE VALLEY/UTAH PORTION-NORTHERN WASATCH FRONT-
SALT LAKE AND TOOELE VALLEYS-SOUTHERN WASATCH FRONT-
GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT AND MOUNTAINS-WASATCH MOUNTAIN VALLEYS-
WASATCH MOUNTAINS I-80 NORTH-WASATCH MOUNTAINS SOUTH OF I-80-
WESTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS-WASATCH PLATEAU/BOOK CLIFFS-
WESTERN UINTA BASIN-CASTLE COUNTRY-SAN RAFAEL SWELL-
SANPETE/SEVIER VALLEYS-WEST CENTRAL UTAH-SOUTHWEST UTAH-
UTAHS DIXIE AND ZION NATIONAL PARK-SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH-
GLEN CANYON RECREATION AREA/LAKE POWELL-CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-
SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS-SOUTHWEST WYOMING-
707 AM MDT THU AUG 6 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF
UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AN UNUSUALLY STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS NEVADA TODAY.
THIS FRONT WILL GENERATE STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS THIS AFTERNOON
THROUGH THIS EVENING...WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS ACROSS THE WESTERN
VALLEYS OF UTAH. A WIND ADVISORY WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN
VALLEY OF UTAH LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EVENING. VERY LOW
RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ALONG WITH THE STRONG WINDS WILL LEAD TO HAZARDOUS
FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS MOST VALLEYS OF UTAH THROUGH TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN UTAH EARLY THIS MORNING
WILL MOVE NORTH OF THE STATE DURING THE MORNING HOURS. ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATER TODAY AHEAD OF THE COLD
FRONT...MAINLY OVER FAR NORTHERN. THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN
UTAH WILL SHIFT INTO EASTERN UTAH AND INCREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE
THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN UTAH TONIGHT.
SIGNIFICANTLY COOLER AIR WILL FOLLOW THE FRONT INTO NORTHWEST UTAH
LATE TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THE COLD FRONT THAT CROSSES THE STATE TONIGHT WILL LEAVE MUCH
COOLER AIR OVER THE AREA THROUGH SATURDAY. WIDESPREAD
PRECIPITATION WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN UTAH LATE FRIDAY
THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY AS THE CORE OF THE STORM SYSTEM MOVES
THROUGH NORTHERN UTAH. A SECOND WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL
FOLLOW FOR SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...BRINGING ADDITIONAL
LIGHT PRECIPITATION TO FAR NORTHERN UTAH. SOUTHERN UTAH WILL
REMAIN ON THE DRY BUT COOLER SIDE THIS WEEKEND. BREEZY CONDITIONS
ARE LIKELY ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN AND SOUTHEAST UTAH THIS WEEKEND.

HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL REBOUND ACROSS THE AREA BEGINNING LATE
SUNDAY. A WARMING TREND WILL BEGIN EARLY NEXT WEEK...AND CONTINUE
INTO MIDWEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT...
HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SALTLAKECITY (ALL LOWER CASE)

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 6:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCSummit39 min
Aug 5, 6:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCDavis46 min
Aug 6, 1:10 PM MDTHigh Wind WarningSLC10 hr
Aug 6, 3:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCDuchesne41 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Utah, 2009Every special weather statement in 2009

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.