Alert archive / Utah / Salt Lake County
Weather alerts in Salt Lake County, Utah, 2009
30 weather alerts in 2009, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Salt Lake County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 30
- Warnings
- 8
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 6
- Busiest month
- June13 alerts
- Busiest day
- September 14, 20096 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Salt Lake County, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 6 | 2 | 67% | 1 | 0% | |
| Flash flood warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
Each office's whole area, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Salt Lake City, UT: tornado warnings | 0 | 2 | 0% | |||
| NWS Salt Lake City, UT: severe thunderstorm warnings | 79 | 10 | 87% | 63 | 24% | 19 min |
| NWS Salt Lake City, UT: flash flood warnings | 11 | 4 | 64% | 7 | 57% | 57 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 5:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 23 min |
| Jun 10, 3:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 12:40 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 2 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:13 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 40 min |
| Jun 17, 9:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 114 min |
| Jun 17, 10:14 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:43 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 2:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 52 min |
| Jun 25, 3:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 2:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 41 min |
| Jun 26, 7:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 7:41 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 2:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 117 min |
| Jul 12, 2:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 38 min |
| Jul 12, 2:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 47 min |
| Jul 12, 2:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 45 min |
| Jul 19, 8:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 24 min |
| Jul 19, 8:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 42 min |
| Jul 19, 8:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 3:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 25 min |
| Aug 23, 6:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 23 min |
| Sep 14, 11:17 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Sep 14, 1:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 52 min |
| Sep 14, 2:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 27 min |
| Sep 14, 2:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Sep 14, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 75 min |
| Sep 14, 5:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 58 min |
| Oct 4, 8:51 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 39 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 6 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 12 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 6 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.