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Snow Squall Warning 3, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this snow squall warning at Feb 14, 2023, 12:27 PM MST for Iron County, Washington County, Utah. It was in force for 33 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
- Feb 14, 2023, 12:27 PM MST (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2023, 1:00 PM MST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Iron County, UT, Washington County, UT
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 1848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow squall 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 snow squall warning went out at Feb 14, 4:16 AM MST, 8 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 14, 4:16 AM MST, 8 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 2:19 AM MST | Winter Storm Warning | SLC | Garfield, Kane, San Juan | 34 hr |
| Feb 14, 2:45 AM MST | High Wind Watch | SLC | Washington | 12 hr |
| Feb 14, 2:45 AM MST | Wind Advisory | SLC | Davis, Juab, Millard, Salt Lake, Washington, Weber | 36 hr |
| Feb 14, 11:55 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Washington | 50 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.