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Fire Weather Watch 8, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

June 6, 201220 counties in Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this fire weather watch at Jun 6, 2012, 3:24 AM MDT for 20 counties in Utah. It took effect at Jun 8, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 2012, 3:24 AM MDT (09:24 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 8, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Jun 6, 2012, 2:23 PM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Counties Beaver County, UT, Box Elder County, UT, Carbon County, UT, Davis County, UT, Emery County, UT, Garfield County, UT, Grand County, UT, Iron County, UT, Juab County, UT, Kane County, UT, Millard County, UT, Piute County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, San Juan County, UT, Sanpete County, UT, Sevier County, UT, Tooele County, UT, Utah County, UT, Washington County, UT, Wayne County, UT

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 280 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 00:00Z on 2012-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2012-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 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
1087 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 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 fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Jun 5, 3:27 PM MDT, 11 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:27 PM MDT, 11 hours 57 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 2:23 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLCBeaver, Box Elder, Carbon, Davis, Emery, Garfield and 14 more4 days

Nearby

Fire Weather Watches in Utah, 2012Every fire weather watch in 2012

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.