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Special Weather Statement, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 6:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Tooele | 58 min |
| May 19, 6:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Weber | 23 min |
| May 19, 7:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Tooele | 57 min |
| May 19, 8:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Salt Lake | 27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.