Utah, 2001

Hail in Utah, July 15, 2001

July 15, 2001 · NWS SLC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Cold
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  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 15, 2:28 PM MST, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:28 PM MST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
328 PM MDT SUN JUL 15 2001

SYNOPSIS...INCREASING SOUTHWEST FLOW OVER UTAH THE NEXT FEW DAYS
WILL BRING A LESS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY BUT INCREASING AFTERNOON
WINDS.

DISCUSSION...WARNINGS STARTING WITH 1 INCH HAIL JUST REPORTED
BETWEEN NEPHI AND PROVO. STRONG UPDRAFTS WITH A FEW ORGANIZED ENOUGH
FOR SEVERE HAIL. WARNING GOING OUT FOR CELL NEAR SCOFIELD. 300 MB
JET OVER SOUTHERN UTAH WILL INTENSIFY MONDAY. DRYING TREND WILL
CONTINUE TOMORROW AND TRIMMING BACK SHOWERS TO THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS
AND EASTERN BASINS. MAY SEE A SHALLOW BOUNDARY PUSH INTO NORTHERN
UTAH ABOUT WEDNESDAY EVENING...RETREATING BACK NORTH THURSDAY
EVENING. FOR NOW NOT INDICATING MUCH TREND IN TEMPERATURES THROUGH
DAY SEVEN.  BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS EACH AFTERNOON WESTERN
VALLEYS AND AIRMASS BECOMING INCREASINGLY DRY.

SLC 3111 CDC 1111  GIBSON

.SLC...NONEW.

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 230 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:57 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Emery

When
July 15, 3:55 PM MST
Where
Emery County, Clawson
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
39.133, -111.100

A severe thunderstorm over Clawson produced 1 inch hail.

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5275570.