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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 2014, 3:51 PM MDT for Carbon County, Duchesne County, Utah. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 15, 2014, 3:51 PM MDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2014, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Carbon County, UT, Duchesne County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
152
WGUS55 KSLC 152151
FFWSLC
UTC007-013-160045-
/O.NEW.KSLC.FF.W.0007.140715T2151Z-140716T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
351 PM MDT TUE JUL 15 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN DUCHESNE COUNTY IN UTAH...
NORTHEASTERN CARBON COUNTY IN UTAH...
* UNTIL 645 PM MDT
* AT 347 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN OVER 9 MILE AND ARGYLE CANYONS.
* RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF OVER 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN A SHORT
PERIOD OF TIME. THIS AREA EXPERIENCED FLASH FLOODING ON
MONDAY...AND ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS ANTICIPATED THROUGH THE
EVENING HOURS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
&&
LAT...LON 3979 10994 3972 11014 3982 11059 3991 11063
3991 11012 3986 10996 3980 10996 3980 10989
$$
MCINERNEYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 6:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Tooele | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 6:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Davis, Salt Lake | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 7:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Emery | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 7:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Utah | 30 min |
| Jul 15, 3:41 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | SLC | 18 hr | |
| Jul 15, 2:05 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:17 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | Carbon, Emery | 32 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:17 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Kane | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 5:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Garfield | 4 hr |
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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.