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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this high wind watch at Dec 16, 2025, 1:57 AM MST for Uinta County, Wyoming. It took effect at Dec 17, 2025, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 16, 2025, 1:57 AM MST (08:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 17, 2025, 5:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2025, 10:05 AM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
County Uinta County, WY
The radar
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 296 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
- 2731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Dec 15, 3:33 PM MST, 10 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 15, 3:33 PM MST, 10 hours 24 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 10:05 AM MST | High Wind Warning | SLC | Box Elder, Carbon, Emery, Salt Lake, Sevier, Tooele and 1 more | 40 hr |
| Dec 16, 2:07 PM MST | Wind Advisory | SLC | Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich and 4 more | 36 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Wyoming, 2025Every high wind watch in 2025
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.