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Areal Flood Warning 39, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

June 28, 2011Duchesne County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this areal flood warning at Jun 28, 2011, 1:31 PM MDT for Duchesne County, Utah. It was in force for 17 days. 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 28, 2011, 1:31 PM MDT (19:31 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 2011, 1:00 PM MDT
In force
17 days
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Duchesne County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 2011-06-28Temperature 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 2011-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 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
4629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 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 areal flood 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 areal flood warning went out at Jun 28, 9:54 AM MDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 9:54 AM MDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 2:45 AM MDT, 10 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
245 AM MDT TUE JUN 28 2011

UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-291300-
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-
245 AM MDT TUE JUN 28 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

RIVERS ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL OUTLOOK AREA WILL CONTINUE
TO FLOW AT ELEVATED LEVELS. SEVERAL OF THESE RIVERS REMAIN NEAR
OR ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. TEMPERATURES REMAIN WARM ENOUGH TO CONTINUE
TO MELT THE HIGH ELEVATION SNOWPACK AT ACCELERATED RATES.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT FLOWS THROUGH MANY WATERWAYS REMAIN
COLD...SWIFT AND POWERFUL...EVEN THOSE THAT ARE BELOW FLOOD
STAGE. THIS COMBINATION IS DANGEROUS NOT JUST FOR CHILDREN...BUT
ADULTS AS WELL. HYPOTHERMIA CAN QUICKLY SET IN WHEN EXPOSED TO
WATER OF THESE TEMPERATURES...SIGNIFICANTLY LIMITING YOUR ABILITY
TO RESCUE YOURSELF.

GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS WESTERN UTAH THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH SEVERE FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
FORECAST WHERE FUELS ARE DRY ACROSS WESTERN AND SOUTHERN UTAH.
WIND SENSITIVE OPERATIONS MAY BE AFFECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

VERY WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY. SEVERAL RIVERS
ACROSS NORTHERN UTAH WILL REMAIN AT OR REACH FLOOD STAGE OVER THE
NEXT FEW DAYS. CONTINUE TO MONITOR FUTURE FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON AFFECTED RIVERS. THESE WATERS ARE
DANGEROUSLY COLD AND SWIFT AND ANYONE VENTURING NEAR THEM SHOULD
EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION.

EVEN STRONGER SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE FORECAST ACROSS MUCH OF THE
REGION WEDNESDAY...WITH SEVERE FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
FORECAST WHERE FUELS ARE DRY ACROSS WESTERN AND SOUTHERN UTAH. WIND
SENSITIVE OPERATIONS WILL LIKELY BE AFFECTED.

A COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE STATE LATE WEDNESDAY EVENING AND MOVE
ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT LEADING TO A ROUND OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL UTAH. SOME
OF THESE STORMS MAY BE STRONG OR SEVERE WITH LOCALLY DAMAGING
WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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

ROGOWSKI

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 28, 3:43 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningSLCCache12 days
Jun 28, 2:50 PM MDTHigh Wind WarningSLC30 hr
Jun 28, 2:50 PM MDTWind AdvisorySLC30 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Utah, 2011Every areal flood warning in 2011

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.