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Special Weather Statement, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this special weather statement at May 17, 2021, 1:08 PM MDT for Kane County, Utah. It was in force for 52 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
- May 17, 2021, 1:08 PM MDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2021, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
County Kane County, UT
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 3543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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WWUS85 KSLC 171908
SPSSLC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
108 PM MDT Mon May 17 2021
UTZ127-128-172000-
South Central Utah UT-Bryce Canyon Country UT-
108 PM MDT Mon May 17 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN GARFIELD AND
NORTHWESTERN KANE COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM MDT...
At 108 PM MDT, National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a
strong thunderstorm over Bryce Canyon National Park, or 29 miles west
of Escalante...moving southwest at 5 mph.
Pea size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible.
Locations impacted include...
Bryce Canyon National Park, Tropic, Cannonville and Rubys Inn.
This includes Utah Route 12 between mile markers 14 and 24.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If threatening weather approaches, take shelter in a sturdy building.
&&
LAT...LON 3754 11227 3757 11224 3757 11223 3770 11215
3770 11208 3767 11204 3753 11207 3753 11224
TIME...MOT...LOC 1908Z 028DEG 6KT 3766 11212
$$
CRKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Salt Lake | 60 min |
| May 17, 12:12 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | SLC | Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane, San Juan, Washington and 1 more | 27 hr |
| May 17, 12:12 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | Beaver, Carbon, Emery, Garfield, Iron, Juab and 9 more | 6 days |
| May 17, 1:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Salt Lake | 44 min |
| May 17, 1:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Wasatch | 51 min |
| May 17, 2:27 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | Washington | 93 min |
| May 17, 4:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Weber | 32 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.