Alert archive / Utah / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2023
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2023, 2:27 PM MDT for Tooele County, Utah. It was in force for 48 min. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2023, 2:27 PM MDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2023, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Tooele County, UT
The radar
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2:35 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 59 | Dugway, UT | CAMEL BACK MTN - 5077 FT. |
| Jun 6, 2:35 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 59 | Dugway, UT | CAMEL BACK MTN - 5077 FT |
| Jun 6, 2:55 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 57 | Dugway, UT | PLAYA STATION - 4280 FT |
| Jun 6, 2:55 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 61 | Clive, UT | SALT FLATS - 4265 FT. |
| Jun 6, 2:55 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 61 | Clive, UT | SALT FLATS - 4265 FT |
| Jun 6, 3:10 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 58 | Knolls, UT | WEST OF WILDCAT MTN - 4259 FT. |
| Jun 6, 3:10 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 58 | Knolls, UT | WEST OF WILDCAT MTN - 4259 FT |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 106 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
539
WUUS55 KSLC 062027
SVRSLC
UTC045-062115-
/O.NEW.KSLC.SV.W.0021.230606T2027Z-230606T2115Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
227 PM MDT Tue Jun 6 2023
The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Tooele County in northern Utah...
* Until 315 PM MDT
* At 227 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles southeast
of Dugway Proving Ground Test Range, or 23 miles southwest of
Dugway English Village, moving northwest at 45 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Utah Test and Training Range South and Dugway Proving Ground Test
Range.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground
lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately.
Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can
hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
&&
LAT...LON 3999 11287 3997 11327 4011 11343 4042 11373
4059 11353 4058 11313
TIME...MOT...LOC 2027Z 151DEG 39KT 4008 11315
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
STW1 follow-up statement
280
WWUS55 KSLC 062050
SVSSLC
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
250 PM MDT Tue Jun 6 2023
UTC045-062115-
/O.CON.KSLC.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-230606T2115Z/
Tooele UT-
250 PM MDT Tue Jun 6 2023
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN TOOELE COUNTY...
At 250 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 10 miles north of
Dugway Proving Ground Test Range, or 30 miles west of Dugway English
Village, moving northwest at 35 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Utah Test and Training Range South and Dugway Proving Ground Test
Range.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4012 11293 4012 11343 4042 11373 4059 11353
4058 11313
TIME...MOT...LOC 2050Z 157DEG 28KT 4031 11332
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
STWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 1:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Juab | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 2:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Summit | 24 min |
| Jun 6, 2:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Tooele | 27 min |
| Jun 6, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Tooele | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 3:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Kane | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Box Elder, Tooele | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Box Elder, Tooele | 36 min |
| Jun 6, 3:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Carbon | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Box Elder, Davis, Tooele, Weber | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 4:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Davis | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 4:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Rich | 23 min |
| Jun 6, 4:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Box Elder | 36 min |
| Jun 6, 4:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Davis | 31 min |
| Jun 6, 5:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Cache | 31 min |
| Jun 6, 5:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Emery | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 5:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Cache | 32 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.