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Winter Weather Advisory 24, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

December 22, 202119 counties in Utah; Uinta County, Wyoming

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this winter weather advisory at Dec 22, 2021, 2:18 PM MST for 19 counties in Utah; Uinta County, Wyoming. It took effect at Dec 23, 2021, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for 44 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 22, 2021, 2:18 PM MST (21:18 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 23, 2021, 12:00 PM MST
Expired
Dec 25, 2021, 8:00 AM MST
In force
44 hr
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Counties Beaver County, UT, Carbon County, UT, Duchesne 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, Sanpete County, UT, Sevier County, UT, Summit 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), 218 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 280 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 2021-12-22Temperature 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 2021-12-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
1714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
253 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter weather advisory went out at Dec 22, 4:30 AM MST, 9 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 22, 4:30 AM MST, 9 hours 48 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 22, 3:12 AM MSTWinter Storm WarningSLCBox Elder, Cache, Carbon, Davis, Duchesne, Emery and 9 more3 days
Dec 22, 3:12 AM MSTWinter Storm WatchSLCUinta11 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.