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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 21, 2021Box Elder County, Cache County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2021, 5:52 PM MDT for Box Elder County, Cache County, Utah. It was in force for 38 min. 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 21, 2021, 5:52 PM MDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired
Aug 21, 2021, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Box Elder County, UT, Cache County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 121 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.

939 
WUUS55 KSLC 212352
SVRSLC
UTC003-005-220030-
/O.NEW.KSLC.SV.W.0088.210821T2352Z-210822T0030Z/

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

The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northern Cache County in northern Utah...
  Northeastern Box Elder County in northern Utah...

* Until 630 PM MDT

* At 552 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Tremonton,
  moving northeast at 50 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

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

* Locations impacted include...
  Logan, Tremonton, Cache, Smithfield, Hyrum, Wellsville, Lewiston,
  Bear River City, Clarkston, Trenton, Plymouth, Howell, Utah State
  University, Benson, Peter, Riverside, North Logan, Providence,
  Nibley and Hyde Park.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 15 between mile markers 371 and 394.
 Interstate 84 between mile markers 23 and 42.
 US Route 89 between mile markers 459 and 490.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4198 11149 4192 11148 4191 11151 4185 11151
      4180 11145 4173 11144 4173 11142 4169 11143
      4156 11244 4186 11246 4200 11174 4200 11151
TIME...MOT...LOC 2352Z 242DEG 45KT 4168 11213 

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

$$

Webber
1 follow-up statement
707 
WWUS55 KSLC 220019
SVSSLC

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

UTC003-005-220030-
/O.CON.KSLC.SV.W.0088.000000T0000Z-210822T0030Z/
Cache UT-Box Elder UT-
619 PM MDT Sat Aug 21 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM MDT
FOR NORTHERN CACHE AND NORTHEASTERN BOX ELDER COUNTIES...

At 618 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Smithfield, or
8 miles northeast of Logan, moving east at 50 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. 

SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

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

Locations impacted include...
Logan, Tremonton, Cache, Smithfield, Hyrum, Wellsville, Lewiston,
Bear River City, Clarkston, Trenton, Plymouth, Howell, Utah State
University, Benson, Peter, Riverside, North Logan, Providence, Nibley
and Hyde Park.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 15 between mile markers 371 and 394.
 Interstate 84 between mile markers 23 and 42.
 US Route 89 between mile markers 459 and 490.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4198 11149 4192 11148 4191 11151 4185 11151
      4180 11145 4173 11144 4173 11142 4169 11143
      4156 11244 4186 11246 4200 11174 4200 11151
TIME...MOT...LOC 0018Z 270DEG 45KT 4182 11173 

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

$$

Webber

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, 5:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDavis, Salt Lake, Tooele33 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.