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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 22, 2022Washington County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2022, 5:16 PM MDT for Washington County, Utah. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 2022, 5:16 PM MDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2022, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Washington County, UT

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 207 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, Las Vegas, NV at 12:00Z on 2022-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 361 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Las Vegas, NV at 12:00Z on 2022-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
361 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-328 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 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
Aug 21, 7:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCWasatch41 min
Aug 21, 7:22 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLCSummit, Wasatch3 hr
Aug 21, 7:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCWasatch26 min
Aug 22, 2:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCIron39 min
Aug 22, 2:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCWashington50 min
Aug 22, 3:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCBox Elder41 min
Aug 22, 4:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCBox Elder41 min
Aug 22, 4:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCCache46 min
Aug 22, 4:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCBox Elder33 min
Aug 22, 4:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCCache50 min
Aug 22, 5:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCBox Elder45 min
Aug 22, 5:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLCWashington29 min
Aug 22, 5:26 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLCWashington64 min

Nearby

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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.