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Hard Freeze Watch 2, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

September 19, 202113 counties in Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this hard freeze watch at Sep 19, 2021, 2:59 AM MDT for 13 counties in Utah. It took effect at Sep 21, 2021, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 19, 2021, 2:59 AM MDT (08:59 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 21, 2021, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired
Sep 20, 2021, 9:36 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Counties Beaver County, UT, Cache County, UT, Garfield County, UT, Iron County, UT, Morgan County, UT, Piute County, UT, Rich County, UT, Sanpete County, UT, Sevier County, UT, Summit County, UT, Wasatch County, UT, Washington County, UT, Weber County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 303 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, Grand Junction, CO at 00:00Z on 2021-09-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 75 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, Grand Junction, CO at 00:00Z on 2021-09-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
75 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-202 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2776 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 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 hard freeze 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 hard freeze watch went out at Sep 18, 4:09 PM MDT, 10 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 4:09 PM MDT, 10 hours 50 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 19, 2:59 AM MDTWind AdvisorySLCUtah17 hr

Nearby

Hard Freeze Watches in Utah, 2021Every hard freeze watch in 2021

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.