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Winter Weather Advisory 22, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

December 13, 202123 counties in Utah; Uinta County, Wyoming

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this winter weather advisory at Dec 13, 2021, 3:55 PM MST for 23 counties in Utah; Uinta County, Wyoming. It took effect at Dec 14, 2021, 8:00 PM MST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 13, 2021, 3:55 PM MST (22:55 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 14, 2021, 8:00 PM MST
Expired
Dec 15, 2021, 11:00 AM MST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
All 24 counties

Beaver County, UT, Box Elder County, UT, Cache County, UT, Davis County, UT, Emery County, UT, Garfield County, UT, Iron County, UT, Juab County, UT, Kane County, UT, Millard County, UT, Morgan County, UT, Piute County, UT, Rich County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Sanpete County, UT, Sevier County, UT, Summit County, UT, Tooele County, UT, Utah County, UT, Wasatch County, UT, Washington County, UT, Wayne County, UT, Weber County, UT, Uinta County, WY

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 306 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2021-12-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2021-12-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 337 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1744 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
337 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
453 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 13, 3:50 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchSLCBeaver, Box Elder, Iron, Juab, Millard, Salt Lake and 3 more12 hr
Dec 13, 3:20 PM MSTHigh Wind WarningSLCBeaver, Box Elder, Iron, Juab, Millard, Salt Lake and 3 more27 hr
Dec 13, 3:20 PM MSTWind AdvisorySLCCache, Garfield, Juab, Kane, Millard, Piute and 2 more27 hr
Dec 13, 3:55 PM MSTWinter Storm WarningSLCBeaver, Box Elder, Cache, Carbon, Davis, Duchesne and 19 more43 hr

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in Utah, 2021Winter Weather Advisories in Wyoming, 2021Every winter weather advisory in 2021

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.