Alert archive / Utah / Flash Flood Warnings in 2021
Flash Flood Warning 108, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 18, 2021, 1:12 PM MDT for Garfield County, Utah. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2021, 1:12 PM MDT (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2021, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Flood severity
- None
County Garfield County, UT
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 590 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted.
683
WGUS55 KSLC 181912
FFWSLC
UTC017-182115-
/O.NEW.KSLC.FF.W.0108.210818T1912Z-210818T2115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
112 PM MDT Wed Aug 18 2021
The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
West Central Garfield County in southern Utah...
* Until 315 PM MDT.
* At 112 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or
expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms
producing flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks, streams and
normally dry washes.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Red Canyon and Hillsdale.
This includes the following highways...
Utah Route 12 between mile markers 0 and 5.
This warning includes Red Canyon Wash, Butch Cassidy Wash, Lossee
Canyon and Castro Canyon as well as the Red Canyon Campground.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Remain alert for flooding even in locations not receiving rain. Dry
washes, streams, and rivers can become raging killer currents in a
matter of minutes, even from distant rainfall.
&&
LAT...LON 3783 11230 3784 11226 3778 11226 3772 11230
3773 11238 3778 11240 3780 11234
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOOD DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
$$
CRK2 follow-up statements
315
WGUS75 KSLC 182004
FFSSLC
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
204 PM MDT Wed Aug 18 2021
UTC017-182115-
/O.CON.KSLC.FF.W.0108.000000T0000Z-210818T2115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
Garfield UT-
204 PM MDT Wed Aug 18 2021
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM MDT THIS
AFTERNOON FOR WEST CENTRAL GARFIELD COUNTY...
At 204 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy
rain across the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms producing
flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks, streams and
normally dry washes.
Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Red Canyon and Hillsdale.
This includes the following highways...
Utah Route 12 between mile markers 0 and 5.
This warning includes Red Canyon Wash, Butch Cassidy Wash, Lossee
Canyon and Castro Canyon as well as the Red Canyon Campground.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Remain alert for flooding even in locations not receiving rain. Dry
washes, streams, and rivers can become raging killer currents in a
matter of minutes, even from distant rainfall.
&&
LAT...LON 3783 11230 3784 11226 3778 11226 3772 11230
3773 11238 3778 11240 3780 11234
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOOD DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
$$
CRK534
WGUS75 KSLC 182107
FFSSLC
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
307 PM MDT Wed Aug 18 2021
UTC017-182117-
/O.EXP.KSLC.FF.W.0108.000000T0000Z-210818T2115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
Garfield UT-
307 PM MDT Wed Aug 18 2021
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 315 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR
WEST CENTRAL GARFIELD COUNTY...
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
A Flash Flood Watch remains in effect until 600 AM MDT Thursday for
portions of central Utah, northern Utah and southern Utah.
LAT...LON 3783 11230 3784 11226 3778 11226 3772 11230
3773 11238 3778 11240 3780 11234
$$
CRKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 6:05 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Millard | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Juab | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 6:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Millard | 59 min |
| Aug 17, 6:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Utah | 36 min |
| Aug 17, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Utah, Wasatch | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 6:57 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Kane, San Juan | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Summit, Wasatch | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 8:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Salt Lake | 38 min |
| Aug 17, 9:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Tooele | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 9:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Kane | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 9:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Juab | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 10:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Juab | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 10:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Salt Lake | 28 min |
| Aug 18, 12:23 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 52 min | |
| Aug 18, 12:31 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Millard | 44 min |
| Aug 18, 12:45 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Juab | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 1:42 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Juab | 48 min |
| Aug 18, 4:38 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Iron | 5 hr |
| Aug 18, 4:41 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Iron | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 6:02 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Iron, Washington | 4 hr |
| Aug 18, 7:30 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Kane, Washington | 90 min |
| Aug 18, 7:55 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | Garfield, Iron, Kane, Washington | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 8:58 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Kane, Washington | 92 min |
| Aug 18, 11:05 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Tooele | 40 min |
| Aug 18, 11:45 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Salt Lake | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 12:11 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Garfield, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 12:17 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 12:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 31 min | |
| Aug 18, 12:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Juab, Tooele | 56 min |
| Aug 18, 12:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Piute | 28 min |
| Aug 18, 1:05 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 1:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Beaver | 31 min |
| Aug 18, 1:24 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | Juab, Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 1:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Juab, Tooele, Utah | 81 min |
| Aug 18, 1:39 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Kane, Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 1:57 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | Salt Lake, Utah | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 2:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Utah | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 2:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Utah | 113 min |
| Aug 18, 2:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Summit | 24 min |
| Aug 18, 2:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Garfield | 49 min |
| Aug 18, 3:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Kane | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 3:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Wasatch | 27 min |
| Aug 18, 3:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Utah | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 3:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Sanpete | 49 min |
| Aug 18, 3:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Emery, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 4:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Kane | 44 min |
| Aug 18, 4:22 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Garfield | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 5:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 49 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.