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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2016, 6:58 PM MDT for Kane County, Utah. It was in force for 4 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 1, 2016, 6:58 PM MDT (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2016, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 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), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 1704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
463
WGUS55 KSLC 020058
FFWSLC
UTC025-020500-
/O.NEW.KSLC.FF.W.0007.160802T0058Z-160802T0500Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
658 PM MDT MON AUG 1 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN KANE COUNTY IN UTAH...
* UNTIL 1100 PM MDT
* AT 657 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN KANE COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES THE PARIA
RIVER...BUCKSKIN GULCH...AND JOHNSON WASH. FLASH FLOODING IS
EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN
KANE COUNTY.
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.
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 3732 11244 3738 11198 3700 11183 3700 11247
$$
SCHOENING2 follow-up statements
782 WGUS75 KSLC 020329 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 929 PM MDT MON AUG 1 2016 UTC025-020500- /O.CON.KSLC.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-160802T0500Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ KANE UT- 929 PM MDT MON AUG 1 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANE COUNTY... AT 924 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA, WITH STEADY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN REMAINING AT MID- EVENING. THIS RAIN SHOULD END MOST AREAS BETWEEN 10 AND 11 PM MDT. FLASH FLOODING OF NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND SMALL STREAM WILL REMAIN A POSSIBILITY THROUGH 11 PM MDT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING EVEN IN LOCATIONS NOT RECEIVING RAIN. DRY WASHES...STREAMS...AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A MATTER OF MINUTES...EVEN FROM DISTANT RAINFALL. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR CREEKS. && LAT...LON 3732 11244 3738 11198 3700 11183 3700 11247 $$ MCONGER
382 WGUS75 KSLC 020457 FFSSLC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1057 PM MDT MON AUG 1 2016 UTC025-020506- /O.EXP.KSLC.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-160802T0500Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ KANE UT- 1057 PM MDT MON AUG 1 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1100 PM MDT... FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT. LAT...LON 3732 11244 3738 11198 3700 11183 3700 11247 $$ MCONGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:44 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Kane, Washington | 7 hr |
| Aug 1, 7:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | Iron | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Box Elder, Tooele | 46 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.