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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

September 6, 2014Garfield County, Wayne County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 2014, 5:22 PM MDT for Garfield County, Wayne County, Utah. It was in force for 113 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 6, 2014, 5:22 PM MDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 2014, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Garfield County, UT, Wayne County, UT

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 253 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 2014-09-06Temperature 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 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
2163 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 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.

191 
WGUS55 KSLC 062322
FFWSLC
UTC017-055-070115-
/O.NEW.KSLC.FF.W.0041.140906T2322Z-140907T0115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
522 PM MDT SAT SEP 6 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY IN UTAH...
  NORTHEASTERN GARFIELD COUNTY IN UTAH...

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT
    
* AT 517 PM MDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED BY PARK RANGERS IN 
  CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK ALONG PLEASANT CREEK. ALSO THE SOUTH 
  DRAW ROAD WAS IMPASSIBLE. 

* THE STORM THAT BROUGHT THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ALREADY MOVED OUT OF THE 
  PARK BUT RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE TO GENERATE FLASH FLOODING IN THIS 
  AREA FOR ANOTHER HOUR OR SO. 


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 3827 11105 3810 11106 3811 11130 3823 11135

$$

PW
1 follow-up statement
955 
WGUS75 KSLC 070055
FFSSLC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
655 PM MDT SAT SEP 6 2014

UTC017-055-070058-
/O.CAN.KSLC.FF.W.0041.000000T0000Z-140907T0115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
WAYNE UT-GARFIELD UT-
655 PM MDT SAT SEP 6 2014

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WAYNE AND NORTHEASTERN
GARFIELD COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

RAINFALL HAD ALREADY ENDED IN THE CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK AND 
FLOOD WATERS ALONG PLEASANT CREEK HAVE LIKELY RECEDED...AND ARE NO 
LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. 

TRAVEL ON BACK COUNTRY ROADS IN THIS AREA INCLUDING THE SOUTH DRAW 
ROAD WILL REMAIN DIFFICULT OR IMPOSSIBLE WELL INTO THE NIGHT. PLEASE 
CONTINUE TO HEED ANY ROAD CLOSURES.

LAT...LON 3827 11105 3810 11106 3811 11130 3823 11135

$$

PW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 2:13 PM MDTFlash Flood WatchSLC3 days

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Utah, 2014Every flash flood warning in 2014

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.