Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2021, 3:51 PM MDT for Tooele County, Utah. It was in force for 24 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 2021, 3:51 PM MDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2021, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Tooele County, UT
The radar
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 3:58 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 62 | 6 Sse Clive, UT | TSTORM WIND GUST TO 62 MPH |
| Aug 17, 4:20 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 63 | Delle, UT | MESONET SITE NEAR DELLE |
| Aug 17, 4:20 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 64 | 1 W Delle, UT | I-80 AT WEST DELLE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 3488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
973
WUUS55 KSLC 172151
SVRSLC
UTC045-172215-
/O.NEW.KSLC.SV.W.0070.210817T2151Z-210817T2215Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
351 PM MDT Tue Aug 17 2021
The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Tooele County in northern Utah...
* Until 415 PM MDT
* At 351 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles south of
Clive, or 27 miles northwest of Dugway English Village, moving
northeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Delle, Skull Valley and Clive.
This includes Interstate 80 in Utah between mile markers 55 and 77.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground
lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately.
Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can
hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
&&
LAT...LON 4040 11310 4062 11319 4090 11284 4073 11261
4039 11259
TIME...MOT...LOC 2151Z 240DEG 36KT 4058 11304
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
MPS1 follow-up statement
779
WWUS55 KSLC 172205
SVSSLC
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
405 PM MDT Tue Aug 17 2021
UTC045-172215-
/O.CON.KSLC.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-210817T2215Z/
Tooele UT-
405 PM MDT Tue Aug 17 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM MDT
FOR CENTRAL TOOELE COUNTY...
At 405 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles northwest of
Skull Valley, or 20 miles west of Grantsville, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile
homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
Locations impacted include...
Delle, Skull Valley and Clive.
This includes Interstate 80 in Utah between mile markers 55 and 77.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
&&
LAT...LON 4040 11303 4067 11312 4090 11284 4073 11261
4039 11259
TIME...MOT...LOC 2205Z 248DEG 34KT 4057 11286
THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
WIND THREAT...OBSERVED
MAX WIND GUST...70 MPH
$$
MPSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 1:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Kane | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 1:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Garfield, Kane | 20 min |
| Aug 17, 2:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Beaver, Garfield, Piute | 52 min |
| Aug 17, 2:50 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Garfield | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Juab | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 3:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Tooele | 25 min |
| Aug 17, 3:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Sevier | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Tooele | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 4:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Emery, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Tooele | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Millard | 66 min |
| Aug 17, 4:53 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Garfield | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Garfield | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 5:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Kane | 4 hr |
| Aug 17, 5:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Tooele | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Davis, Salt Lake | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 5:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Garfield, Kane | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Millard | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 5:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Sanpete | 27 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.