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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 2016, 6:54 PM 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 23, 2016, 6:54 PM MDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2016, 10:00 PM 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), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1004 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
517
WGUS55 KSLC 240056
FFWSLC
UTC025-240400-
/O.NEW.KSLC.FF.W.0021.160824T0054Z-160824T0400Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
654 PM MDT TUE AUG 23 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANE COUNTY IN UTAH...
* UNTIL 1000 PM MDT
* AT 654 PM MDT...FLASH FLOODING CONTINUES IN THE BUCKSKIN DRAINAGE
AND THE LOWER PARIA RIVER. AS SUCH...THIS WARNING IS A
CONTINUATION OF THE EARLIER WARNING ISSUED AND EXPIRED AT 7PM.
* FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN THROUGH THE LOWER PARIA RIVER DRAINAGE
UNTIL THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. IF YOU ARE TRAVELING NEAR HOUSE ROCK
ROAD OR HIKING IN THIS AREA...PLEASE BE VIGILANT THAT HIGH WATER
REMAINS IN THIS VICINITY.
LAT...LON 3732 11220 3734 11185 3700 11178 3700 11213
$$
MCINERNEY2 follow-up statements
981 WGUS75 KSLC 240307 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 907 PM MDT TUE AUG 23 2016 UTC025-240400- /O.CON.KSLC.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160824T0400Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ KANE UT- 907 PM MDT TUE AUG 23 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANE COUNTY... AT 903 PM MDT...FLASH FLOODING OVER BUCKSKIN WASH HAS CAUSED DAMAGE TO HOUSE ROCK ROAD IN UTAH. FARTHER SOUTH THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF BOULDERS ON THE ROAD WHICH MAY CREATE IMPASSABLE CONDITIONS TO THE VERMILION CLIFFS AREA. THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS REGION HAVE RECEDED, YET FLOOD FLOWS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. IF YOU PLAN ON TRAVELING THROUGH THIS AREA, PLEASE USE CAUTION AS HIGH FLOWS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING. LAT...LON 3732 11220 3734 11185 3700 11178 3700 11213 $$ VERZELLA
641 WGUS75 KSLC 240357 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 957 PM MDT TUE AUG 23 2016 UTC025-240404- /O.EXP.KSLC.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160824T0400Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ KANE UT- 957 PM MDT TUE AUG 23 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1000 PM MDT... FLOOD WATERS HAVE RECEDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT, THOUGH ELEVATED FLOWS IN THE BUCKSKIN AND PARIA DRAINAGES MAY CONTINUE INTO THE LATE EVENING HOURS. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES. LAT...LON 3732 11220 3734 11185 3700 11178 3700 11213 $$ VERZELLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Iron, Washington | 35 min |
| Aug 23, 6:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Washington | 27 min |
| Aug 24, 2:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Iron | 25 min |
| Aug 24, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Garfield | 48 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.