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

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings6267%10%
Flash flood warnings20100%10%

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Salt Lake City, UT: tornado warnings020%
NWS Salt Lake City, UT: severe thunderstorm warnings791087%6324%19 min
NWS Salt Lake City, UT: flash flood warnings11464%757%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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 3, 5:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC23 min
Jun 10, 3:36 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC3 hr
Jun 11, 12:40 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC2 hr
Jun 11, 1:13 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC2 hr
Jun 13, 2:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC40 min
Jun 17, 9:36 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC114 min
Jun 17, 10:14 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLC3 hr
Jun 20, 4:43 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLC3 hr
Jun 21, 2:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 21, 3:53 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC52 min
Jun 25, 3:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC64 min
Jun 26, 2:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC41 min
Jun 26, 7:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC42 min
Jun 26, 7:41 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC2 hr
Jul 2, 2:03 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC117 min
Jul 12, 2:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC38 min
Jul 12, 2:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC47 min
Jul 12, 2:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC45 min
Jul 19, 8:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC24 min
Jul 19, 8:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC42 min
Jul 19, 8:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC31 min
Aug 14, 3:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC25 min
Aug 23, 6:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC23 min
Sep 14, 11:17 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Sep 14, 1:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC52 min
Sep 14, 2:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC27 min
Sep 14, 2:48 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Sep 14, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC75 min
Sep 14, 5:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC58 min
Oct 4, 8:51 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC39 min

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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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.