Alert archive / Utah / Salt Lake County
Weather alerts in Salt Lake County, Utah, 2013
49 weather alerts in 2013, 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 49
- Warnings
- 14
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 11
- Busiest month
- July22 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 6, 20134 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, 2013
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 1 | 1 | 0% | 8 | 13% | 13 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
Each office's whole area, 2013
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Salt Lake City, UT: tornado warnings | 0 | 1 | 0% | |||
| NWS Salt Lake City, UT: severe thunderstorm warnings | 44 | 15 | 66% | 86 | 28% | 21 min |
| NWS Salt Lake City, UT: flash flood warnings | 123 | 41 | 67% | 91 | 56% | 89 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 2:48 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | 4 days |
| Jun 21, 2:47 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | SLC | 24 hr |
| Jun 22, 2:44 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | 54 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:42 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | 3 days |
| Jul 5, 12:05 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 3:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| Jul 5, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 10:09 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| Jul 6, 5:11 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 82 min |
| Jul 7, 5:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 90 min |
| Jul 8, 3:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 36 min |
| Jul 8, 3:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 18 min |
| Jul 8, 3:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 1:09 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 6:54 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 51 min |
| Jul 16, 7:11 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:19 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | SLC | 21 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:04 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | SLC | 11 hr |
| Jul 24, 2:27 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | 19 hr |
| Jul 28, 2:14 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 4:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 30, 3:22 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | SLC | 23 hr |
| Jul 31, 2:44 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | 42 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:22 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:11 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | SLC | 35 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:54 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | 8 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 3:01 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | 18 hr |
| Aug 9, 2:30 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | 31 hr |
| Aug 12, 8:07 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | 13 hr |
| Aug 13, 2:46 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | 3 days |
| Aug 15, 2:22 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | SLC | 36 hr |
| Aug 17, 2:51 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | SLC | 18 hr |
| Aug 24, 4:45 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 2 hr |
| Aug 24, 4:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 25 min |
| Aug 29, 4:13 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| Sep 6, 4:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 48 min |
| Sep 6, 5:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | SLC | 50 min |
| Sep 7, 4:46 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 118 min |
| Sep 14, 11:41 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | 2 hr |
| Sep 14, 1:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | 3 hr |
| Sep 17, 1:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Sep 17, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Sep 17, 3:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 91 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 | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 6 |
| Special Weather Statement | 10 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 11 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 12 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 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.