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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

March 12, 202518 counties in Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this winter storm warning at Mar 12, 2025, 3:06 PM MDT for 18 counties in Utah. It took effect at Mar 13, 2025, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 36 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 12, 2025, 3:06 PM MDT (21:06 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 13, 2025, 6:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 14, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
36 hr
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Counties Beaver County, UT, Carbon County, UT, Duchesne County, UT, Emery County, UT, Garfield County, UT, Iron County, UT, Juab County, UT, Kane County, UT, Millard County, UT, Piute County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Sanpete County, UT, Sevier County, UT, Summit County, UT, Utah County, UT, Wasatch County, UT, Washington County, UT, Wayne County, UT

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 288 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 12:00Z on 2025-03-12Temperature 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 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 12:00Z on 2025-03-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 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
2890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 12, 4:14 AM MDT, 10 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 4:14 AM MDT, 10 hours 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 12, 3:06 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisorySLCBox Elder, Cache, Davis, Emery, Garfield, Juab and 13 more3 days

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Utah, 2025Every winter storm warning 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.