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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 26, 2011Rich County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2011, 1:12 PM MDT for Rich 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 26, 2011, 1:12 PM MDT (19:12 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2011, 2:00 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Rich County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 2011-08-26Temperature 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 2011-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 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
3092 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 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.

153 
WUUS55 KSLC 261912
SVRSLC
UTC033-262000-
/O.NEW.KSLC.SV.W.0079.110826T1912Z-110826T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
112 PM MDT FRI AUG 26 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN RICH COUNTY IN UTAH

* UNTIL 200 PM MDT

* AT 109 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 NEAR
  RANDOLPH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  RANDOLPH

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 4188 11102 4164 11103 4159 11125 4172 11135
      4190 11104
TIME...MOT...LOC 1911Z 241DEG 8KT 4169 11121

$$

SCHOENING
1 follow-up statement
527 
WWUS55 KSLC 261955
SVSSLC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
155 PM MDT FRI AUG 26 2011

UTC033-262004-
/O.EXP.KSLC.SV.W.0079.000000T0000Z-110826T2000Z/
RICH UT-
155 PM MDT FRI AUG 26 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN RICH COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 200 PM MDT...

THE STORM HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 4188 11102 4164 11103 4159 11125 4172 11135
      4190 11104
TIME...MOT...LOC 1954Z 241DEG 8KT 4174 11110

$$

SCHOENING

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 4:12 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLCGarfield, Kane5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Utah, 2011Every severe thunderstorm 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.