Alert archive / Utah / Flash Flood Warnings in 2014
Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 2014, 3:38 PM MDT for Garfield County, Kane County, Utah. It was in force for 112 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
- Sep 5, 2014, 3:38 PM MDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2014, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Garfield County, UT, Kane County, UT
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 268 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
222
WGUS55 KSLC 052138
FFWSLC
UTC017-025-052330-
/O.NEW.KSLC.FF.W.0040.140905T2138Z-140905T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
338 PM MDT FRI SEP 5 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL GARFIELD COUNTY IN UTAH...
NORTHEASTERN KANE COUNTY IN UTAH...
* UNTIL 530 PM MDT
* AT 333 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN OVER THE HARRIS WASH IN THE ESCALANTE RIVER BASIN.
FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY OCCURRING ALONG THIS AND OTHER NEARBY DRY
WASHES IN THIS AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING EVEN IN LOCATIONS NOT RECEIVING RAIN. DRY
WASHES...STREAMS AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A
MATTER OF MINUTES...EVEN FROM DISTANT RAINFALL.
&&
LAT...LON 3771 11119 3746 11095 3747 11123 3756 11143
3770 11143
$$
PW2 follow-up statements
435
WGUS75 KSLC 052227
FFSSLC
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
427 PM MDT FRI SEP 5 2014
UTC017-025-052330-
/O.CON.KSLC.FF.W.0040.000000T0000Z-140905T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
GARFIELD UT-KANE UT-
427 PM MDT FRI SEP 5 2014
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM MDT FOR
SOUTH CENTRAL GARFIELD AND NORTHEASTERN KANE COUNTIES...
AT 419 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA WERE WEAKENING. HOWEVER...RADAR
ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN
IN THE AREA BETWEEN HARRIS WASH AND TWENTYFIVE MILE WASH EAST
TOWARDS THE MAIN STEM OF THE ESCALANTE RIVER.
FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY OCCURRING IN THESE AND OTHER DRY WASHES IN
THIS AREA. HIGHER FLOWS ARE ALSO LIKELY ALONG THE ESCALANTE RIVER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING EVEN IN LOCATIONS NOT RECEIVING RAIN. DRY
WASHES...STREAMS AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A
MATTER OF MINUTES...EVEN FROM DISTANT RAINFALL.
&&
LAT...LON 3771 11119 3746 11095 3747 11123 3756 11143
3770 11143
$$
PW351
WGUS75 KSLC 052324
FFSSLC
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
524 PM MDT FRI SEP 5 2014
UTC017-025-052332-
/O.EXP.KSLC.FF.W.0040.000000T0000Z-140905T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
GARFIELD UT-KANE UT-
524 PM MDT FRI SEP 5 2014
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL GARFIELD AND
NORTHEASTERN KANE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 530 PM MDT...
HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL GARFIELD AND NORTHEASTERN
KANE COUNTIES. HIGH FLOWS MAY CONTINUE ALONG THE ESCALANTE RIVER
TOWARD LAKE POWELL FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...HOWEVER THE FLASH
FLOOD THREAT HAS DIMINISHED. THEREFORE...THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED
TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 3771 11119 3746 11095 3747 11123 3756 11143
3770 11143
$$
CRKNearby
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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.