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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

June 15, 2010Box Elder County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2010, 5:39 PM MDT for Box Elder County, Utah. It was in force for 36 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
Jun 15, 2010, 5:39 PM MDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2010, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Box Elder County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 118 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2010-06-15Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2010-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 4:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 4:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 4:50 AM MDT, 12 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
450 AM MDT TUE JUN 15 2010

UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-161200-
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-
450 AM MDT TUE JUN 15 2010

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

WARMER AND DRIER CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE AREA TODAY. A
FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN
AND CENTRAL UTAH. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY STRONG OUTFLOW
WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM WILL PUSH A COLD FRONT THROUGH UTAH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BRINGING A BRIEF PERIOD OF
COOLER TEMPERATURES TO THE AREA.

STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED BEHIND THE FRONT WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING ACROSS NORTHERN AND PORTIONS
OF CENTRAL UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING. SOUTH OF THE FRONT...STRONG
SOUTH WINDS WILL DEVELOP FOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
THESE WINDS WILL LIKELY AFFECT WIND-SENSITIVE OPERATIONS. ACROSS
FAR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH-CENTRAL UTAH...THE WINDS WILL COMBINE
WITH LOW HUMIDITIES AND CRITICALLY DRY FUELS TO PRODUCE EXTREME
FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS.

IN ADDITION...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP
ACROSS NORTHERN UTAH ON WEDNESDAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE
POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HAIL AND STRONG MICROBURST WINDS.

THE STORM SYSTEM WILL EXIT THE AREA THURSDAY WITH A RETURN TO
WARMER AND DRIER CONDITIONS FOR THE WEEKEND.

.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)

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 3:28 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC45 hr
Jun 15, 3:54 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchSLC11 hr
Jun 15, 3:16 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchSLC13 hr
Jun 15, 3:16 PM MDTHigh Wind WarningSLC33 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Utah, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.