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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 21, 2021Davis County, Salt Lake County, Tooele County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2021, 5:42 PM MDT for Davis County, Salt Lake County, Tooele County, Utah. It was in force for 33 min. 7 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 21, 2021, 5:42 PM MDT (23:42 UTC)
Expired
Aug 21, 2021, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Davis County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Tooele County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 21, 5:45 PM MDTTSTM WND GST 581 Se Delle, UTMEASURED AT UDOT I-80 AT MP 71 EAST DELLE SENSOR.
Aug 21, 6:00 PM MDTTSTM WND DMGKaysville, UTTREE DOWN AND DAMAGED PORTION OF FENCE
Aug 21, 6:00 PM MDTNON-TSTM WND DMGKaysville, UTTREE DOWN AND DAMAGED PORTION OF FENCE
Aug 21, 6:19 PM MDTTSTM WND GST 65Woods Cross, UTTREE BRANCHES DOWN.
Aug 21, 6:20 PM MDTTSTM WND GST 594 Nw Magna, UT
Aug 21, 6:20 PM MDTTSTM WND GST 734 Nne Stansbury Park, UT
Aug 21, 6:21 PM MDTTSTM WND GST 631 Wsw Farmington, UTMEASURED AT A PERSONAL WEATHER STATION IN FARMINGTON

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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 39 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 2021-08-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 77 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 2021-08-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 239 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
77 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-271 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
239 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

701 
WUUS55 KSLC 212342
SVRSLC
UTC011-035-045-220015-
/O.NEW.KSLC.SV.W.0087.210821T2342Z-210822T0015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
542 PM MDT Sat Aug 21 2021

The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Western Salt Lake County in northern Utah...
  Davis County in northern Utah...
  Northeastern Tooele County in northern Utah...

* Until 615 PM MDT

* At 542 PM MDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from 15 miles northwest of Great Salt Lake South of the
  Causeway to 15 miles west of Skull Valley, moving east at 45 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. 

* Locations impacted include...
  Salt Lake City, West Valley City, Layton, Bountiful, Tooele,
  Farmington, Grantsville, West Jordan, South Jordan, Kaysville,
  North Salt Lake, Centerville, Woods Cross, Stansbury Park, West
  Bountiful, Ophir, Kearns, Delle, Salt Lake City International
  Airport and Tooele Army Depot.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 15 between mile markers 314 and 315, and between mile
markers 317 and 330.
 Interstate 80 in Utah between mile markers 66 and 117.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 4103 11270 4106 11257 4106 11184 4101 11183
      4044 11211 4047 11213 4046 11222 4034 11217
      4033 11220 4029 11219 4010 11228 4035 11310
TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 285DEG 38KT 4115 11262 4042 11304 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
WIND THREAT...OBSERVED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

CRK
1 follow-up statement
140 
WWUS55 KSLC 212352
SVSSLC

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
552 PM MDT Sat Aug 21 2021

UTC011-035-045-220015-
/O.CON.KSLC.SV.W.0087.000000T0000Z-210822T0015Z/
Salt Lake UT-Davis UT-Tooele UT-
552 PM MDT Sat Aug 21 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT
FOR WESTERN SALT LAKE...DAVIS AND NORTHEASTERN TOOELE COUNTIES...

At 550 PM MDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 11 miles northwest of Great Salt Lake South of the
Causeway to 11 miles west of Skull Valley, moving east at 45 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. 

SOURCE...Trained weather spotters. 

IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. 

Locations impacted include...
Salt Lake City, West Valley City, Layton, Bountiful, Tooele,
Farmington, Grantsville, West Jordan, South Jordan, Kaysville, North
Salt Lake, Centerville, Woods Cross, Stansbury Park, West Bountiful,
Ophir, Kearns, Delle, Salt Lake City International Airport and Tooele
Army Depot.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 15 between mile markers 314 and 315, and between mile
markers 317 and 330.
 Interstate 80 in Utah between mile markers 66 and 117.

This lines of storms has a history of producing wind gusts to 65 mph 
even behind the main area of thunderstorms. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 4103 11270 4106 11257 4106 11184 4101 11183
      4044 11211 4047 11213 4046 11222 4034 11217
      4033 11220 4029 11219 4010 11228 4035 11310
TIME...MOT...LOC 2350Z 285DEG 38KT 4113 11254 4040 11296 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
WIND THREAT...OBSERVED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

CRK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 1:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCRich50 min
Aug 21, 3:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCBox Elder61 min
Aug 21, 4:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCTooele59 min
Aug 21, 4:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCCache56 min
Aug 21, 5:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCDavis20 min
Aug 21, 5:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCDavis26 min
Aug 21, 5:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Cache, Davis, Morgan, Weber48 min
Aug 21, 5:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder, Cache38 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.