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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 6, 2016, 7:26 AM MDT for Kane 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
- Aug 6, 2016, 7:26 AM MDT (13:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2016, 10:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Kane County, UT
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:28 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1344 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
311
WGUS55 KSLC 061326
FFWSLC
UTC025-061600-
/O.NEW.KSLC.FF.W.0015.160806T1326Z-160806T1600Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
726 AM MDT SAT AUG 6 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANE COUNTY IN UTAH...
* UNTIL 1000 AM MDT
* AT 723 AM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY
RAIN OVER THE WAHWEAP CREEK DRAINAGE. FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING
NEAR BIG WATER UTAH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 3736 11117 3700 11143 3700 11175 3737 11163
$$
MCONGER2 follow-up statements
533 WGUS75 KSLC 061436 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 836 AM MDT SAT AUG 6 2016 UTC025-061600- /O.CON.KSLC.FF.W.0015.000000T0000Z-160806T1600Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ KANE UT- 836 AM MDT SAT AUG 6 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM MDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANE COUNTY... AT 832 AM MDT...THE EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS THAT GENERATED THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE WARNED AREA FROM THE SOUTH...THOUGH WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL IS NOT EXPECTED. FLASH FLOODING ALONG WAHWEAP CREEK AND THE SURROUNDING DRY WASHES WILL CONTINUE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING EVEN IN LOCATIONS NOT RECEIVING RAIN. DRY WASHES...STREAMS...AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A MATTER OF MINUTES...EVEN FROM DISTANT RAINFALL. && LAT...LON 3736 11117 3700 11143 3700 11175 3737 11163 $$ MCONGER
551 WGUS75 KSLC 061600 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1000 AM MDT SAT AUG 6 2016 UTC025-061608- /O.EXP.KSLC.FF.W.0015.000000T0000Z-160806T1600Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ KANE UT- 1000 AM MDT SAT AUG 6 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1000 AM MDT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT. LAT...LON 3736 11117 3700 11143 3700 11175 3737 11163 $$ MCONGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 3:46 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 1:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Salt Lake | 37 min |
| Aug 6, 2:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Salt Lake, Utah | 37 min |
| Aug 6, 2:22 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | Salt Lake | 53 min |
| Aug 6, 2:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Salt Lake | 46 min |
Nearby
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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.