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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2016, 10:53 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
- Sep 3, 2016, 10:53 AM MDT (16:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2016, 1:45 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), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1401 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted.
576
WGUS55 KSLC 031653
FFWSLC
UTC025-031945-
/O.NEW.KSLC.FF.W.0026.160903T1653Z-160903T1945Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
1053 AM MDT SAT SEP 3 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANE COUNTY IN UTAH...
* UNTIL 145 PM MDT
* AT 1051 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN OVER THE HOUSEROCK VALLEY AND BUCKSKIN WASH. FLASH
FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BUCKSKIN GULCH...THE HOUSEROCK VALLEY ROAD...
AND OTHER NORMALLY DRY WASHES IN THE AREA.
LAT...LON 3719 11209 3724 11177 3700 11163 3700 11209
$$
GM1 follow-up statement
978 WGUS75 KSLC 031833 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1233 PM MDT SAT SEP 3 2016 UTC025-031945- /O.CON.KSLC.FF.W.0026.000000T0000Z-160903T1945Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ KANE UT- 1233 PM MDT SAT SEP 3 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 PM MDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANE COUNTY... AT 1229 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED ACROSS THE HOUSEROCK ROAD AND BUCKSKIN GULCH EARLIER PRODUCED UP TO ONE HALF INCH OF RAINFALL IN A VERY BRIEF PERIOD. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BE OCCURRING ACROSS THIS AREA. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... BUCKSKIN GULCH...THE HOUSEROCK VALLEY ROAD... AND OTHER NORMALLY DRY WASHES IN THE AREA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING EVEN IN LOCATIONS NOT RECEIVING RAIN. DRY WASHES...STREAMS...AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A MATTER OF MINUTES...EVEN FROM DISTANT RAINFALL. && LAT...LON 3719 11209 3724 11177 3700 11163 3700 11209 $$ GM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 6:01 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Kane | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 6:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Carbon | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 7:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Sevier | 52 min |
| Sep 3, 1:43 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Kane | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Garfield | 29 min |
| Sep 3, 4:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Wayne | 31 min |
| Sep 3, 5:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Carbon, Duchesne | 25 min |
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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.