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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

September 6, 2019Box Elder County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 2019, 5:11 PM MDT for Box Elder County, Utah. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 6, 2019, 5:11 PM MDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 2019, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Box Elder County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2019-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 83 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2019-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
83 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 6, 3:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 3:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 1:47 PM MDTFire Weather WatchSLCBeaver, Carbon, Emery, Garfield, Iron, Juab and 8 more25 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Utah, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.