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Flood Watch 2, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

July 16, 20268 counties in Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this flood watch at Jul 16, 2026, 10:29 AM MDT for 8 counties in Utah. It took effect at Jul 17, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 2026, 10:29 AM MDT (16:29 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 17, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jul 17, 2026, 10:51 PM MDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Flood severity: None

Counties Beaver County, UT, Garfield County, UT, Iron County, UT, Kane County, UT, Piute County, UT, Sevier County, UT, Washington County, UT, Wayne County, UT

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:31 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

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 341 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: 134 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -222 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2942 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 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 flood 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 flood watch went out at Jul 16, 7:27 AM MDT, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 7:27 AM MDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 16, 10:00 AM 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
Jul 16, 2:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Beaver	4 hr
Jul 16, 2:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SLC	Piute, Sevier, Wayne	113 min
Jul 16, 2:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC		50 min
Jul 16, 3:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Garfield	39 min
Jul 16, 3:28 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Piute, Sevier	3 hr
Jul 16, 3:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Carbon	47 min
Jul 16, 3:37 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Piute	3 hr
Jul 16, 4:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Iron	3 hr
Jul 16, 4:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Emery	3 hr
Jul 16, 4:51 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Iron, Washington	3 hr
Jul 16, 4:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	SLC	Washington	31 min
Jul 16, 5:21 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Garfield, Wayne	3 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.