Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2016, 4:05 PM MDT for Box Elder County, Cache County, Weber County, Utah. It was in force for 25 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2016, 4:05 PM MDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2016, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Box Elder County, UT, Cache County, UT, Weber County, UT
The radar
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 4:20 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 66 | 2 N Willard, UT | I-15 AT WILLARD MESONET SITE |
| May 6, 4:20 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 66 | 2 N Willard, UT |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
774 WUUS55 KSLC 062208 SVRSLC UTC003-005-057-062230- /O.NEW.KSLC.SV.W.0002.160506T2205Z-160506T2230Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 405 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL WEBER COUNTY IN UTAH... SOUTHEASTERN BOX ELDER COUNTY IN UTAH... WEST CENTRAL CACHE COUNTY IN UTAH... * UNTIL 430 PM MDT * AT 405 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES WEST OF HOOPER TO NEAR MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE...AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BRIGHAM CITY...PERRY... WILLARD... BEAR RIVER CITY... CORINNE... FARR WEST... PLAIN CITY... HONEYVILLE... ELWOOD... DEWEYVILLE... BEAR RIVER... SLATERVILLE... WEST WARREN... GOLDEN SPIKE HISTORIC SITE... WEST WEBER AND WARREN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. && LAT...LON 4162 11267 4172 11200 4125 11202 4118 11250 TIME...MOT...LOC 2205Z 172DEG 31KT 4123 11242 4128 11212 $$ MCONGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 11:13 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | SLC | 4 hr | |
| May 6, 1:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Duchesne | 32 min |
| May 6, 1:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Salt Lake | 31 min |
| May 6, 3:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Davis | 31 min |
| May 6, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Box Elder, Cache | 28 min |
| May 6, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Box Elder | 31 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.