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Special Weather Statement, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this special weather statement at Sep 13, 2016, 12:49 PM MDT for Emery County, Utah. It was in force for 41 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
- Sep 13, 2016, 12:49 PM MDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2016, 1:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
County Emery County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 231 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 341 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
- 1335 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Sep 13, 10:03 AM MDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 10:03 AM MDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 517 AM MDT TUE SEP 13 2016 UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-141230- CACHE VALLEY/UTAH PORTION-NORTHERN WASATCH FRONT- SALT LAKE AND TOOELE VALLEYS-SOUTHERN WASATCH FRONT- GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT AND MOUNTAINS-WASATCH MOUNTAIN VALLEYS- WASATCH MOUNTAINS I-80 NORTH-WASATCH MOUNTAINS SOUTH OF I-80- WESTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS-WASATCH PLATEAU/BOOK CLIFFS- WESTERN UINTA BASIN-CASTLE COUNTRY-SAN RAFAEL SWELL- SANPETE/SEVIER VALLEYS-WEST CENTRAL UTAH-SOUTHWEST UTAH- UTAHS DIXIE AND ZION NATIONAL PARK-SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH- GLEN CANYON RECREATION AREA/LAKE POWELL-CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS-SOUTHWEST WYOMING- 517 AM MDT TUE SEP 13 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY WILL BRING HAZARDOUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE WESTERN OUTLOOK AREA TODAY. WINDS WILL BECOME STRONG ENOUGH ACROSS THE WESTERN VALLEYS TO IMPACT TRAVEL WITH STRONG CROSSWINDS AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING DUST. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE EASTERN OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE COULD PRODUCE VERY STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY COOLER AIR WILL SPREAD INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA ON WEDNESDAY. A WARMING TREND IS EXPECTED FOR THE END OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SALTLAKECITY/ (ALL LOWER CASE) FOR INFORMATION ON POTENTIAL ROAD TRAVEL IMPACTS VISIT... HTTP://WWW.UDOTTRAFFIC.UTAH.GOV/ROADWEATHERFORECAST.ASPX
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Special weather statement, Sep 13, 12:15 PM MDT, 34 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 12:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Garfield | 45 min |
| Sep 13, 1:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Wayne | 51 min |
| Sep 13, 2:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Carbon | 27 min |
| Sep 13, 2:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Emery | 33 min |
| Sep 13, 5:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Emery | 31 min |
| Sep 13, 5:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Davis, Salt Lake | 33 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Utah, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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.