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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

December 16, 2025Uinta County, Wyoming

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Grand Junction, CO at 00:00Z on 2025-12-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 00:00Z on 2025-12-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 16, 10:05 AM MSTHigh Wind WarningSLCBox Elder, Carbon, Emery, Salt Lake, Sevier, Tooele and 1 more40 hr
Dec 16, 2:07 PM MSTWind AdvisorySLCBox Elder, Cache, Davis, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich and 4 more36 hr

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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.