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Freeze Warning 9, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this freeze warning at Apr 21, 2026, 10:22 PM MDT for 10 counties in Utah. It took effect at Apr 22, 2026, 10:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 12 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
- Apr 21, 2026, 10:22 PM MDT (04:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 22, 2026, 10:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2026, 10:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Counties Beaver County, UT, Carbon County, UT, Duchesne County, UT, Emery County, UT, Iron County, UT, Juab County, UT, Millard County, UT, Sanpete County, UT, Sevier County, UT, Washington County, UT
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:24 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 312 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
- 3674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 21, 11:55 AM MDT, 10 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 11:55 AM MDT, 10 hours 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2:28 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Davis, Salt Lake, Weber | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 6:34 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | Morgan, Salt Lake | 26 min |
| Apr 22, 9:54 AM MDT | Freeze Watch | SLC | Beaver, Box Elder, Carbon, Duchesne, Emery, Iron and 5 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
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.