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Fire Weather Watch 10, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

June 5, 202120 counties in Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this fire weather watch at Jun 5, 2021, 3:18 PM MDT for 20 counties in Utah. It took effect at Jun 9, 2021, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2021, 3:18 PM MDT (21:18 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 9, 2021, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired
Jun 7, 2021, 1:25 PM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Counties Beaver County, UT, Box Elder County, UT, Carbon County, UT, Davis County, UT, Duchesne County, UT, Emery County, UT, Garfield County, UT, Iron County, UT, Juab County, UT, Kane County, UT, Millard County, UT, Piute County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, San Juan County, UT, Sanpete County, UT, Sevier County, UT, Tooele County, UT, Utah County, UT, Washington County, UT, Wayne County, UT

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 2021-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2021-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-365 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 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 fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Jun 5, 9:55 AM MDT, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 9:55 AM MDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 6:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCTooele30 min
Jun 4, 6:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCTooele29 min
Jun 4, 7:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCSalt Lake45 min
Jun 4, 8:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCDavis32 min
Jun 5, 3:17 AM MDTFire Weather WatchSLCBeaver, Carbon, Duchesne, Emery, Garfield, Iron and 7 more12 hr
Jun 5, 5:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCTooele41 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.