Alert archive / Utah / Salt Lake County

Weather alerts in Salt Lake County, Utah, 2015

37 weather alerts in 2015, 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
37
Warnings
9
Watches
1
Advisories
10
Busiest month
June15 alerts
Busiest day
June 15, 20154 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, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings6183%1533%31 min
Flash flood warnings110%0

Each office's whole area, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Salt Lake City, UT: severe thunderstorm warnings831483%11446%37 min
NWS Salt Lake City, UT: flash flood warnings702170%3566%110 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
Apr 14, 1:19 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 6, 7:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC50 min
May 18, 2:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC25 min
May 18, 5:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC36 min
May 27, 7:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC44 min
May 27, 7:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC47 min
Jun 3, 3:38 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Jun 3, 6:39 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC51 min
Jun 3, 8:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC48 min
Jun 3, 8:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC36 min
Jun 6, 7:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC65 min
Jun 6, 7:33 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC87 min
Jun 6, 8:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC44 min
Jun 11, 2:33 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC87 min
Jun 15, 2:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 15, 3:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC40 min
Jun 15, 4:22 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
Jun 15, 5:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC31 min
Jun 15, 6:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC23 min
Jun 15, 7:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC44 min
Jun 15, 7:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jul 6, 2:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC23 min
Jul 6, 2:59 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC2 hr
Jul 8, 10:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC40 min
Jul 8, 10:58 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC62 min
Jul 8, 11:32 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLC118 min
Jul 9, 3:56 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC2 hr
Aug 7, 6:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC85 min
Aug 11, 5:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC40 min
Aug 11, 5:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC50 min
Aug 21, 2:33 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC19 hr
Sep 3, 3:00 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC54 hr
Sep 15, 12:16 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC89 min
Sep 15, 1:50 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC55 min
Oct 2, 12:46 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC59 min
Oct 2, 1:51 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC84 min
Oct 3, 7:05 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC55 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

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20142016

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.