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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

May 6, 2016Box Elder County, Cache County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2016, 4:32 PM MDT for Box Elder County, Cache County, Utah. It was in force for 28 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, 4:32 PM MDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2016, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Box Elder County, UT, Cache County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 6, 4:50 PM MDTTSTM WND GST 60Tremonton, UTI-15 AT TREMONTON MESONET SITE
May 6, 4:50 PM MDTTSTM WND GST 60Tremonton, 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 108 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2016-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2016-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted.

099 
WUUS55 KSLC 062233
SVRSLC
UTC003-005-062300-
/O.NEW.KSLC.SV.W.0003.160506T2232Z-160506T2300Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
432 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BOX ELDER COUNTY IN UTAH...
  NORTHWESTERN CACHE COUNTY IN UTAH...

* UNTIL 500 PM MDT

* AT 430 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
  MPH AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEAR RIVER CITY TO NEAR
  CORINNE...AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

  THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF
  60 MPH!

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BRIGHAM CITY...TREMONTON...CACHE...PERRY...BEAR RIVER CITY...CORINNE...
  CLARKSTON...PLYMOUTH...HOWELL...RIVERSIDE...PETER...GARLAND...HONEYVILLE...
  MENDON...ELWOOD...NEWTON...FIELDING...DEWEYVILLE...BEAR RIVER AND
  BOTHWELL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE. THIS IS A VERY
DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
&&

LAT...LON 4183 11268 4192 11200 4146 11198 4139 11252
TIME...MOT...LOC 2232Z 174DEG 30KT 4145 11244 4149 11214 

$$
1 follow-up statement
948 
WWUS55 KSLC 062253
SVSSLC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
452 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2016

UTC003-005-062300-
/O.CON.KSLC.SV.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160506T2300Z/
BOX ELDER UT-CACHE UT-
452 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM MDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN BOX ELDER AND NORTHWESTERN CACHE COUNTIES...

AT 452 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH. THESE STORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR PROMONTORY POINT TO NEAR
TREMONTON AND WERE MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL MAY ALSO
ACCOMPANY THE DAMAGING WINDS.

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH!

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TREMONTON...CACHE...BEAR RIVER CITY...CORINNE...CLARKSTON...PLYMOUTH...
HOWELL...RIVERSIDE...GARLAND...HONEYVILLE...ELWOOD...FIELDING...DEWEYVILLE...
BEAR RIVER...BOTHWELL...PENROSE...THATCHER...GOLDEN SPIKE HISTORIC SITE...
COLLINSTON AND PROMONTORY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE. THIS IS A
DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
&&

LAT...LON 4183 11268 4192 11200 4147 11211 4141 11250
TIME...MOT...LOC 2252Z 166DEG 29KT 4163 11248 4167 11218 

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 11:13 AM MDTWind AdvisorySLC4 hr
May 6, 1:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDuchesne32 min
May 6, 1:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCSalt Lake31 min
May 6, 3:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCDavis31 min
May 6, 4:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Cache, Weber25 min
May 6, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder31 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.