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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 7, 2011Duchesne County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2011, 1:48 PM MDT for Duchesne County, Utah. It was in force for 42 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
Jul 7, 2011, 1:48 PM MDT (19:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2011, 2:30 PM MDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Duchesne County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 12:00Z on 2011-07-07Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2011-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 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
2714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 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.

418 
WUUS55 KSLC 071948
SVRSLC
UTC013-072030-
/O.NEW.KSLC.SV.W.0041.110707T1948Z-110707T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
148 PM MDT THU JUL 7 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL DUCHESNE COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 230 PM MDT

* AT 142 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  SOUTH CENTRAL DUCHESNE COUNTY...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF DUCHESNE...
  MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  RURAL SOUTHERN DUCHESNE COUNTY

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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.

&&

LAT...LON 4014 11004 3987 11009 3997 11055 4015 11052
TIME...MOT...LOC 1947Z 276DEG 12KT 4005 11041

$$

KRUSE
2 follow-up statements
674 
WWUS55 KSLC 072002
SVSSLC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
202 PM MDT THU JUL 7 2011

UTC013-072030-
/O.CON.KSLC.SV.W.0041.000000T0000Z-110707T2030Z/
DUCHESNE UT-
202 PM MDT THU JUL 7 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM MDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL DUCHESNE COUNTY...

AT 200 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED OVER CENTRAL DUCHESNE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF
DUCHESNE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  RURAL SOUTHERN DUCHESNE COUNTY 

LAT...LON 4014 11004 3993 11007 4001 11046 4015 11043
TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 262DEG 16KT 4007 11033

$$

KRUSE
361 
WWUS55 KSLC 072015
SVSSLC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
215 PM MDT THU JUL 7 2011

UTC013-072030-
/O.CON.KSLC.SV.W.0041.000000T0000Z-110707T2030Z/
DUCHESNE UT-
215 PM MDT THU JUL 7 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM MDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL DUCHESNE COUNTY...

AT 212 PM MDT... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
CENTRAL DUCHESNE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DUCHESNE...
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  RURAL SOUTHEASTERN DUCHESNE COUNTY

LAT...LON 3996 11007 4000 11039 4015 11038 4014 11004
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 262DEG 16KT 4010 11022

$$

KRUSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 9:06 PM MDTFlash Flood WatchSLC4 hr
Jul 7, 2:05 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLCUtah, Wasatch3 hr
Jul 7, 2:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCUtah35 min
Jul 7, 2:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDuchesne34 min
Jul 7, 4:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCTooele63 min

Nearby

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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.