Flood Watch
NWS Salt Lake City UT ยท US
Details
Flood Watch In Effect Through Thursday Evening
- Event
- Flood Watch
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Future
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Possible
- Response
- Prepare
Description
What
Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be possible.
Where
A portion of Utah, including the following areas, Castle Country, Central Mountains and Wasatch Plateau/Book Cliffs.
When
Through Thursday evening.
Impacts
Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, dry washes, slot canyons, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations such as slickrock areas and recent burn scars.
Additional details
- Several rounds of thunderstorms may bring heavy rainfall to the area starting this afternoon through this evening, with another round Thursday afternoon through Thursday evening. Also, overnight tonight, a more widespread area of light to moderate rainfall will move through, helping to the keep the area saturated and more easily prone to flooding. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Instructions
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
Affected areas
- Wasatch Plateau/Book Cliffs
- Central Mountains
- Castle Country
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Salt Lake City UT
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~31s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2NKB5E7DGH9P8S94H2HQ4MH
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.3f11708ed198a309d16c4a414818b25fc01abccd.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Salt Lake City UT
- AWIPS ID
- CAPSLC
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.7281
- WMO heading
- XOUS55
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 55
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FFA |
| NationalWeatherService | FAA |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FFASLC |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS65 KSLC 161713 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.EXB.KSLC.FA.A.0010.260916T1800Z-260918T0600Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-18T00:00:00-06:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Wasatch Plateau/Book Cliffs
- Central Mountains
- Castle Country
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 049007 |
| SAME | 049013 |
| SAME | 049015 |
| SAME | 049039 |
| SAME | 049049 |
| SAME | 049051 |
| SAME | 049023 |
| SAME | 049027 |
| SAME | 049041 |
| UGC | UTZ113 |
| UGC | UTZ117 |
| UGC | UTZ120 |