Alert archive / Utah / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this red flag warning at Jul 12, 2016, 3:36 AM MDT for 9 counties in Utah. It took effect at Jul 12, 2016, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 2016, 3:36 AM MDT (09:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 12, 2016, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2016, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Counties Cache County, UT, Duchesne County, UT, Morgan County, UT, Rich County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Summit County, UT, Utah County, UT, Wasatch County, UT, Weber County, UT
The radar
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:38 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
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 3153 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
625 WWUS85 KSLC 120936 RFWSLC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 336 AM MDT TUE JUL 12 2016 UTZ482-122200- /O.NEW.KSLC.FW.W.0005.160712T1800Z-160713T0200Z/ WESTERN UINTAH BASIN- 336 AM MDT TUE JUL 12 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 482 BELOW 6500 FEET... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 482 WESTERN UINTAH BASIN BELOW 6500 FEET. * WINDS...WEST 20 MPH GUSTING TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...10 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ UTZ479-122200- /O.NEW.KSLC.FW.W.0005.160712T1800Z-160713T0200Z/ WASATCH MOUNTAINS- 336 AM MDT TUE JUL 12 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 479 BELOW 7000 FEET... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS...WEST 20 MPH GUSTING TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...7 TO 12 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ ROGOWSKI FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SALTLAKECITY (ALL LOWER CASE)
1 follow-up statement
556 WWUS85 KSLC 122102 RFWSLC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 302 PM MDT TUE JUL 12 2016 UTZ482-130200- /O.CON.KSLC.FW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160713T0200Z/ WESTERN UINTAH BASIN- 302 PM MDT TUE JUL 12 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 482 BELOW 6500 FEET... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 482 WESTERN UINTAH BASIN BELOW 6500 FEET. * WINDS...WEST 20 MPH GUSTING TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...10 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ UTZ479-130200- /O.CON.KSLC.FW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160713T0200Z/ WASATCH MOUNTAINS- 302 PM MDT TUE JUL 12 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 479 BELOW 7000 FEET... * WINDS...WEST 20 MPH GUSTING TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...7 TO 12 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SALTLAKECITY (ALL LOWER CASE)
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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.