Alert archive / Utah / Salt Lake County
Weather alerts in Salt Lake County, Utah, 2011
51 weather alerts in 2011, 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 51
- Warnings
- 22
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 8
- Busiest month
- June14 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 29, 20116 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, 2011
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 12 | 7 | 42% | 16 | 88% | 18 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2 | 100% | 13 min |
Each office's whole area, 2011
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Salt Lake City, UT: tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| NWS Salt Lake City, UT: severe thunderstorm warnings | 87 | 20 | 77% | 101 | 42% | 16 min |
| NWS Salt Lake City, UT: flash flood warnings | 59 | 17 | 71% | 31 | 61% | 65 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 6:21 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 18 min |
| Apr 18, 4:46 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | 16 hr |
| Apr 21, 12:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 35 min |
| Apr 21, 1:08 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Apr 21, 1:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 48 min |
| Apr 21, 1:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 36 min |
| Apr 21, 1:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 30 min |
| Apr 25, 6:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 23 min |
| May 22, 4:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| May 22, 6:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 3 hr |
| May 22, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 79 min |
| May 22, 7:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 57 min |
| May 24, 5:35 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:04 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | 25 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | 25 hr |
| Jun 19, 1:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:11 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 4:45 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 2:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | 6 days |
| Jun 24, 2:26 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | 44 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 20 min |
| Jun 29, 1:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 3:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 3:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 6:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | 15 hr |
| Jun 30, 7:35 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | 5 days |
| Jul 5, 9:42 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | 63 hr |
| Jul 9, 4:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 6:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 40 min |
| Jul 19, 3:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 43 min |
| Jul 19, 3:31 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 59 min |
| Jul 26, 3:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 31 min |
| Jul 26, 3:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 4:05 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 4:40 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 110 min |
| Aug 4, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 4:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 38 min |
| Aug 13, 9:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 52 min |
| Aug 14, 10:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 39 min |
| Aug 14, 11:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 1:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 20, 6:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 21 min |
| Aug 27, 7:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 69 min |
| Aug 28, 8:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 55 min |
| Aug 28, 10:41 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 109 min |
| Aug 30, 8:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 43 min |
| Aug 30, 9:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 59 min |
| Sep 11, 6:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 42 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 | 12 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 6 |
| Special Weather Statement | 15 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 9 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 8 |
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.