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Mesoscale Discussion 1815
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 2, 2023, 4:09 PM MDT for 7 counties in Utah. It was in force for 96 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2023, 4:09 PM MDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2023, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch unlikely
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
Counties Box Elder County, UT, Cache County, UT, Davis County, UT, Morgan County, UT, Rich County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Weber County, UT
The radar
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 12:12 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Emery, Garfield, Juab, Kane, Piute, Salt Lake and 5 more | 2 hr |
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.