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Special Weather Statement, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

May 19, 2016Rich County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2016, 6:48 PM MDT for Rich County, Utah. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 2016, 6:48 PM MDT (00:48 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 2016, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT

County Rich County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 00:00Z on 2016-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 56 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 00:00Z on 2016-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 147 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
56 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3125 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted.

271 
WWUS85 KSLC 200048
SPSSLC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
648 PM MDT THU MAY 19 2016
 
UTZ007-200115-
WASATCH MOUNTAINS I-80 NORTH UT-
648 PM MDT THU MAY 19 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR RICH AND EAST CENTRAL CACHE
COUNTIES UNTIL 715 PM MDT...

AT 645 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING BEAR LAKE...WOODRUFF AND
RANDOLPH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. 

WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE...WHICH WILL CAUSE ROUGH
WATERS ON BEAR LAKE. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RANDOLPH...LAKETOWN...GARDEN CITY...WOODRUFF...GARDEN...MEADOWVILLE...
LAKOTA AND PICKELVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4199 11107 4130 11105 4139 11137 4199 11148
TIME...MOT...LOC 0045Z 221DEG 52KT 4196 11142 4126 11138 

$$

MPS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 6:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCTooele58 min
May 19, 6:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCWeber23 min
May 19, 7:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCTooele57 min
May 19, 8:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCSalt Lake27 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.