Alert archive / Utah / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 2016, 7:34 PM MDT for Kane County, Utah. It was in force for 6 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 20, 2016, 7:34 PM MDT (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2016, 1:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 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), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:36 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 1939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
613
WGUS55 KSLC 210134
FFWSLC
UTC025-210730-
/O.NEW.KSLC.FF.W.0005.160721T0134Z-160721T0730Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
734 PM MDT WED JUL 20 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL KANE COUNTY IN UTAH...
* UNTIL 130 AM MDT THURSDAY
* AT 728 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN OVER THE PARIA RIVER DRAINAGE, COYOTE CREEK, AND
WAHWEAP CREEK. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN IN THE
PARIA DRAINAGE AND CLOSE TO ONE INCH OVER COYOTE CREEK. FLASH
FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BIG WATER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AND OTHER LOW LYING SPOTS.
FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE
YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME
KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR
CREEKS.
&&
LAT...LON 3740 11172 3722 11166 3700 11145 3700 11191
3728 11210 3745 11209
$$
LC2 follow-up statements
309
WGUS75 KSLC 210431
FFSSLC
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
1031 PM MDT WED JUL 20 2016
UTC025-210730-
/O.CON.KSLC.FF.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160721T0730Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
KANE UT-
1031 PM MDT WED JUL 20 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 AM MDT FOR
CENTRAL KANE COUNTY...
AT 1025 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT UP TO TWO INCHES OF
RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN IN THE PARIA RIVER DRAINAGE AND AROUND ONE
INCH OVER COYOTE CREEK. RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLASH
FLOODING IN THE PARIA RIVER...COYOTE CREEK AND WAHWEAP CREEK THROUGH
LATE TONIGHT.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BIG WATER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE
YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME
KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR
CREEKS.
&&
LAT...LON 3740 11172 3722 11166 3700 11145 3700 11191
3728 11210 3745 11209
$$
LC762
WGUS75 KSLC 210538
FFSSLC
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
1138 PM MDT WED JUL 20 2016
UTC025-210730-
/O.CON.KSLC.FF.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160721T0730Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
KANE UT-
1138 PM MDT WED JUL 20 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 AM MDT FOR
CENTRAL KANE COUNTY...
AT 1131 PM MDT...THE HEAVY RAINFALL FROM EARLIER THIS EVENING HAS
ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. HEAVY RUNOFF IS STILL ONGOING IN THE
PARIA RIVER AND COYOTE AND WAHWEEP CREEK DRAINAGES. HIGH FLOWS WILL
CONTINUE IN THESE AREAS THROUGH 130 AM MDT.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BIG WATER....RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL KANE COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE
YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME
KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR
CREEKS.
&&
LAT...LON 3740 11172 3722 11166 3700 11145 3700 11191
3728 11210 3745 11209
$$
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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.