Flood Watch
NWS Salt Lake City UT ยท US
Details
Flood Watch Remains In Effect Through This 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, San Rafael Swell and Wasatch Plateau/Book Cliffs.
When
Through this 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
- Showers and thunderstorms are expected to re-develop this afternoon across the area and continue through the evening hours. Rainfall rates between 0.25 to 1 inch per hour with locally higher rates under the heaviest storms are expected. This will cause flash flooding in areas such as normally dry washes, slot canyon, and slickrock areas. - 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
- San Rafael Swell
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Salt Lake City UT
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~38s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Update
- Lifecycle
- Updated
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2QK50ENGP78A5V8NSSDE8WT
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.a8e4608b05fa187b4bb582436595e8fbf52ad0a6.002.1
- 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.9697
- WMO heading
- XOUS55
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 55
References
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FFA |
| NationalWeatherService | FAA |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FFASLC |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS65 KSLC 171148 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.CON.KSLC.FA.A.0010.000000T0000Z-260918T0600Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-18T00:00:00-06:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
| expiredReferences | w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.3f11708ed198a309d16c4a414818b25fc01abccd.004.1,2026-09-16T11:13:00-06:00 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.3f11708ed198a309d16c4a414818b25fc01abccd.001.1,2026-09-16T11:13:00-06:00 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.42b131a21d443c998d8da42fa8fbc9ddf099390c.002.1,2026-09-16T02:47:00-06:00 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.ffb89bc68a10e004ed16090d18cb63a99bf7067e.002.1,2026-09-15T11:58:00-06:00 |
Locations
Location data
- Wasatch Plateau/Book Cliffs
- Central Mountains
- Castle Country
- San Rafael Swell
| 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 |
| UGC | UTZ121 |