Alert archive / Utah / Salt Lake County

Weather alerts in Salt Lake County, Utah, 2016

59 weather alerts in 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
59
Warnings
26
Watches
7
Advisories
3
Busiest month
August22 alerts
Busiest day
June 13, 20166 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, 2016

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings8713%1650%7 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2016

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Salt Lake City, UT: tornado warnings040%
NWS Salt Lake City, UT: severe thunderstorm warnings652857%18326%18 min
NWS Salt Lake City, UT: flash flood warnings32875%1471%51 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
Feb 18, 10:46 AM MSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
Mar 6, 2:53 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementSLC67 min
Mar 6, 3:49 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementSLC56 min
May 6, 12:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
May 6, 1:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC31 min
May 7, 3:33 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC57 min
May 9, 3:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC34 min
May 19, 8:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC27 min
Jun 12, 1:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Jun 12, 5:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC34 min
Jun 13, 12:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC31 min
Jun 13, 12:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC24 min
Jun 13, 12:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC26 min
Jun 13, 1:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC29 min
Jun 13, 1:49 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC116 min
Jun 13, 5:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC49 min
Jun 28, 2:17 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC32 hr
Jun 29, 6:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC26 min
Jun 29, 6:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC20 min
Jul 8, 2:27 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC68 hr
Jul 12, 3:36 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC16 hr
Jul 15, 2:55 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC4 days
Jul 17, 2:48 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC30 hr
Jul 18, 6:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC23 min
Jul 28, 2:49 PM MDTFire Weather WatchSLC24 hr
Jul 28, 2:49 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC6 days
Aug 1, 2:18 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC37 hr
Aug 4, 2:54 PM MDTFire Weather WatchSLC12 hr
Aug 5, 2:47 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC21 hr
Aug 5, 2:48 PM MDTFire Weather WatchSLC31 hr
Aug 6, 1:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC37 min
Aug 6, 2:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC37 min
Aug 6, 2:22 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC53 min
Aug 6, 2:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC46 min
Aug 6, 9:30 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC24 hr
Aug 7, 11:39 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Aug 7, 3:06 PM MDTFire Weather WatchSLC24 hr
Aug 8, 3:22 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC30 hr
Aug 9, 2:59 PM MDTFire Weather WatchSLC12 hr
Aug 10, 3:15 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC24 hr
Aug 10, 3:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC34 min
Aug 10, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC33 min
Aug 13, 1:55 PM MDTFire Weather WatchSLC24 hr
Aug 14, 2:24 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC34 hr
Aug 16, 1:43 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC58 hr
Aug 22, 2:58 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC30 hr
Aug 30, 2:18 PM MDTFire Weather WatchSLC12 hr
Aug 31, 2:29 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC49 hr
Sep 2, 3:52 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC66 hr
Sep 10, 2:19 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC3 days
Sep 11, 2:13 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC47 hr
Sep 13, 5:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC33 min
Sep 22, 1:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Sep 22, 3:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC47 min
Oct 2, 12:38 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Oct 2, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC45 min
Dec 16, 11:20 AM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC25 min
Dec 16, 11:40 AM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC35 min
Dec 16, 12:20 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC40 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.