Alert archive / Utah / Salt Lake County

Weather alerts in Salt Lake County, Utah, 2018

68 weather alerts in 2018, 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
68
Warnings
23
Watches
6
Advisories
5
Busiest month
August24 alerts
Busiest day
August 22, 201815 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, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings5180%956%15 min
Flash flood warnings20100%0

Each office's whole area, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Salt Lake City, UT: tornado warnings020%
NWS Salt Lake City, UT: severe thunderstorm warnings46687%3839%19 min
NWS Salt Lake City, UT: flash flood warnings711875%4154%80 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
Mar 14, 1:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC48 min
May 13, 5:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC61 min
May 13, 6:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC46 min
May 20, 1:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC49 min
May 20, 2:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC41 min
May 20, 3:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC25 min
May 27, 3:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC27 min
May 27, 3:24 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC66 min
May 27, 3:53 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC22 min
May 27, 4:04 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC56 min
May 30, 8:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC33 min
Jun 18, 10:41 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC34 min
Jun 18, 11:11 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC49 min
Jun 18, 12:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC28 min
Jun 18, 12:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC19 min
Jun 26, 12:58 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC4 days
Jun 30, 2:04 PM MDTFire Weather WatchSLC37 hr
Jul 1, 2:30 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC4 days
Jul 3, 1:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC27 min
Jul 8, 6:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC42 min
Jul 9, 7:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC50 min
Jul 11, 2:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC28 min
Jul 16, 10:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC51 min
Jul 16, 11:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC44 min
Jul 21, 8:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC25 min
Jul 21, 9:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC25 min
Jul 28, 9:23 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC36 hr
Aug 3, 3:08 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC42 hr
Aug 5, 9:41 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC11 hr
Aug 19, 2:41 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC31 hr
Aug 21, 7:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC47 min
Aug 22, 12:25 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC110 min
Aug 22, 12:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Aug 22, 2:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Aug 22, 3:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC39 min
Aug 22, 3:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC23 min
Aug 22, 3:29 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLC91 min
Aug 22, 3:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC38 min
Aug 22, 4:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC51 min
Aug 22, 4:37 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC83 min
Aug 22, 4:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC48 min
Aug 22, 5:13 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Aug 22, 5:18 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC87 min
Aug 22, 5:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC41 min
Aug 22, 5:58 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSLC5 min
Aug 22, 6:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC33 min
Aug 22, 6:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC34 min
Aug 22, 8:23 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
Aug 24, 2:24 PM MDTFire Weather WatchSLC19 hr
Aug 25, 9:49 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC35 hr
Aug 29, 2:54 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC30 hr
Sep 9, 2:28 PM MDTFire Weather WatchSLC37 hr
Sep 10, 3:23 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC18 hr
Sep 10, 1:19 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC5 days
Sep 14, 2:33 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC54 hr
Sep 17, 12:46 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC32 hr
Sep 17, 12:46 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC3 days
Sep 20, 2:46 PM MDTFire Weather WatchSLC21 hr
Sep 21, 12:03 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC3 days
Sep 26, 2:40 PM MDTFire Weather WatchSLC37 hr
Sep 27, 2:40 PM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC28 hr
Sep 28, 3:24 AM MDTRed Flag WarningSLC66 hr
Oct 1, 2:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC33 min
Oct 1, 2:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC34 min
Oct 2, 8:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC49 min
Oct 2, 9:23 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisorySLC112 min
Oct 2, 9:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementSLC63 min
Dec 25, 8:55 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementSLC65 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.