High Wind, Great Salt Lake Desert and Mountains/Wendover/Snowville
- When
- October 6, 2:00 PM MST to 4:00 PM MST
- Where
- Great Salt Lake Desert and Mountains/Wendover/Snowville forecast zone
High Wind in Utah, October 6, 1999
Strong winds ahead of a cold front brought 66 mph (57 kts) wind gusts to St. George, and 51 mph (44 kts) gusts to Vernon Hill.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 SLC wrote it up.
Strong winds ahead of a cold front brought 66 mph (57 kts) wind gusts to St. George, and 51 mph (44 kts) gusts to Vernon Hill.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Utah'S Dixie and Zion National Park
- When
- October 6, 2:00 PM MST to 4:00 PM MST
- Where
- Utah'S Dixie and Zion National Park forecast zone
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
More
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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5724314, 5724315.