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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

August 2, 2023Uinta County, Wyoming

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2023, 5:11 PM MDT for Uinta County, Wyoming. It was in force for 26 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 2, 2023, 5:11 PM MDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2023, 5:37 PM MDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Uinta County, WY

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 128 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 962 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 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 severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 2, 4:35 PM MDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 4:35 PM MDT, 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 2, 4:30 PM MDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:30 PM MDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 4:44 PM MDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:51 PM MDT, 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:58 PM MDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 5:04 PM MDT, 7 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 7:40 AM MDT	Flood Watch	SLC	Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Carbon, Davis, Duchesne and 19 more	31 hr
Aug 2, 9:47 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Iron	43 min
Aug 2, 10:29 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Beaver	31 min
Aug 2, 10:56 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Beaver	34 min
Aug 2, 11:06 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Washington	24 min
Aug 2, 11:11 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Iron, Kane, Washington	4 hr
Aug 2, 11:32 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Millard	28 min
Aug 2, 11:43 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SLC	Iron	93 min
Aug 2, 11:51 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Millard	39 min
Aug 2, 12:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Millard	45 min
Aug 2, 12:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC		40 min
Aug 2, 1:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Piute	52 min
Aug 2, 1:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Juab, Millard	65 min
Aug 2, 1:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Duchesne	17 min
Aug 2, 1:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Garfield	41 min
Aug 2, 1:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Kane	48 min
Aug 2, 1:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Kane	42 min
Aug 2, 1:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Sevier	42 min
Aug 2, 1:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SLC	Salt Lake	107 min
Aug 2, 1:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Juab, Tooele, Utah	59 min
Aug 2, 1:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Kane	39 min
Aug 2, 1:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Juab	50 min
Aug 2, 2:00 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Garfield, Kane	6 hr
Aug 2, 2:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah, Wasatch	33 min
Aug 2, 2:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Garfield	44 min
Aug 2, 2:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Garfield, Kane	41 min
Aug 2, 2:58 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Garfield, Kane	3 hr
Aug 2, 3:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Salt Lake, Summit, Tooele, Utah, Wasatch	59 min
Aug 2, 3:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Tooele	33 min
Aug 2, 3:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Emery	39 min
Aug 2, 3:24 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Tooele	4 hr
Aug 2, 3:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC		48 min
Aug 2, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Box Elder, Davis, Morgan, Salt Lake, Tooele, Weber	60 min
Aug 2, 3:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Emery	48 min
Aug 2, 4:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SLC	Salt Lake	117 min
Aug 2, 4:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SLC	Tooele	119 min
Aug 2, 4:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Morgan, Summit	43 min
Aug 2, 4:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Duchesne	45 min
Aug 2, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Box Elder, Davis, Tooele, Weber	45 min
Aug 2, 4:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Emery	39 min
Aug 2, 4:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Weber	47 min
Aug 2, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Morgan, Rich, Summit	58 min
Aug 2, 5:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Rich	62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.