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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

January 4, 202212 counties in Utah; Uinta County, Wyoming

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this winter storm warning at Jan 4, 2022, 3:05 PM MST for 12 counties in Utah; Uinta County, Wyoming. It was in force for 43 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 4, 2022, 3:05 PM MST (22:05 UTC)
Expired
Jan 6, 2022, 10:21 AM MST
In force
43 hr
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Counties Box Elder County, UT, Cache County, UT, Davis County, UT, Duchesne County, UT, Juab County, UT, Morgan County, UT, Rich County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Summit County, UT, Utah County, UT, Wasatch County, UT, Weber County, UT, Uinta County, WY

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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 12:00Z on 2022-01-04Temperature 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2022-01-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 636 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1746 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
106 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
636 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
870 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.