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Flash Flood Warning 134, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

September 16, 2026Kane County, Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 2026, 3:38 PM MDT for Kane County, Utah. It was in force for 4 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: Sep 16, 2026, 3:38 PM MDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired: Sep 16, 2026, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Kane County, UT

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 340 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2450 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 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 flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Sep 16, 2:31 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 2:31 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 16, 1:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 16, 2:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 16, 2:45 PM MDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 16, 2:49 PM MDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 16, 3:04 PM MDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 16, 3:09 PM MDT, 29 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 15, 11:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Juab	49 min
Sep 16, 2:10 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Utah	50 min
Sep 16, 4:17 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Carbon	43 min
Sep 16, 7:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Garfield, Wayne	48 min
Sep 16, 7:21 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Wasatch	39 min
Sep 16, 7:29 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Garfield	3 hr
Sep 16, 7:38 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Garfield	37 min
Sep 16, 10:11 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Garfield, Kane	6 hr
Sep 16, 11:04 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC		41 min
Sep 16, 12:01 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	San Juan	3 hr
Sep 16, 12:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC		52 min
Sep 16, 12:34 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	San Juan	2 hr
Sep 16, 1:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC		50 min
Sep 16, 1:48 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Emery	3 hr
Sep 16, 2:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Carbon, Emery	46 min
Sep 16, 2:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Cache	43 min
Sep 16, 2:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	SLC	Carbon, Emery	3 hr
Sep 16, 2:39 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Kane	3 hr
Sep 16, 2:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Garfield	45 min
Sep 16, 2:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Carbon	41 min
Sep 16, 3:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Garfield, Kane	42 min
Sep 16, 3:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Rich	41 min
Sep 16, 3:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Carbon	51 min
Sep 16, 3:15 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Wayne	3 hr
Sep 16, 3:28 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Kane	2 hr
Sep 16, 3:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Carbon, Emery	38 min
Sep 16, 4:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Wasatch	43 min
Sep 16, 4:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Carbon	48 min
Sep 16, 4:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC		32 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.