High Wind, La Sal & Abajo Mountains
- When
- June 2, 1:00 PM MST
- Where
- La Sal & Abajo Mountains forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 38.304, -109.687 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Utah, June 2, 1999
Strong winds associated with an approaching cold front blew a power line off an insulator, causing the wire to burn. This resulted in a power outage to over 130 customers for nearly three hours.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS GJT wrote it up.
Strong winds associated with an approaching cold front blew a power line off an insulator, causing the wire to burn. This resulted in a power outage to over 130 customers for nearly three hours.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in South Dakota, June 2 to 30, 1999
- Dense Fog in California, June 2, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 2, 1999
- Hail in California, June 2, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 2 to 14, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 2 to 10, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 2, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 2, 1999
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 2, 1999
- High Wind in Colorado, June 2, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 2, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 2, 1999
More
Every storm in Utah in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, June 1999
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5715432.