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Special Weather Statement, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 5, 2021Box Elder County, Tooele County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2021, 6:12 PM MDT for Box Elder County, Tooele County, Utah. It was in force for 48 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 5, 2021, 6:12 PM MDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2021, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Hail
0.00 in
Wind
55

Counties Box Elder County, UT, Tooele County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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, Elko, NV at 00:00Z on 2021-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 340 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Elko, NV at 00:00Z on 2021-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
340 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

004 
WWUS85 KSLC 060012
SPSSLC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
612 PM MDT Thu Aug 5 2021
 
UTZ101-060100-
Great Salt Lake Desert and Mountains UT-
612 PM MDT Thu Aug 5 2021

...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of western Box Elder and
western Tooele Counties through 700 PM MDT...

At 611 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated a broad area of showers 
capable of producing gusty winds along a line extending from near 
Juniper to near Utah Test and Training Range South. Movement was 
east at 10 mph. Automated weather observing stations reported wind 
gusts to 55 mph in Lucin and over the Bonneville Salt Flats. 

HAZARD...Wind gusts of 40 to 55 mph. 

SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around 
         unsecured objects. 

Locations impacted include...
Wendover, Park Valley, Dugway Proving Ground Test Range, Utah Test
and Training Range North, Clive, Utah Test and Training Range South,
Knolls, Great Salt Lake North of the Causeway, Etna, Grouse Creek,
Lynn, Bonneville Salt Flats, Locomotive Springs, Lucin and Rosette.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 80 in Utah between mile markers 0 and 57.
 Utah Route 30 between mile markers 0 and 86.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. 

&&

LAT...LON 4197 11284 4019 11303 4014 11405 4196 11404
TIME...MOT...LOC 0011Z 266DEG 8KT 4197 11307 4038 11341 

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH

$$

MT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 7:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCDavis, Salt Lake39 min
Aug 5, 9:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCDavis, Weber40 min
Aug 5, 10:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCRich33 min
Aug 5, 10:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCWeber27 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.