Utah, 2001

Tornado in Utah, July 25, 2001

July 25, 2001 · NWS SLC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 25, 8:50 AM MST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 8:50 AM MST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
950 AM MDT WED JUL 25 2001

SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LOW OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILL GRADUALLY MOVE
NORTHEASTWARD TODAY AND THURSDAY...CAUSING WINDS ALOFT TO BECOME
MORE SOUTHERLY. THIS WILL BRING AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE TO THE
AREA.

DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO EXTREME SW UTAH ALTHOUGH
LITTLE CHANGE IN DEWPOINTS SUGGEST LITTLE RAIN REACHING THE GROUND.
PLENTY OF LIGHTNING SO MAY BE A FIRE STARTING SITUATION.

DEFORMATION ZONE NOW JUST EAST/WEST JUST SOUTH OF PROVO WITH MID AND
HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE EVERYWHERE SOUTH OF THE ZONE. HAVE ALREADY
UPDATED ZONE 19 FOR THUNDERSTORMS. ELSEWHERE CURRENT ZONES WHICH
HAVE 20-40 PERCENT POPS TODAY ARE FINE WITH THE THREAT OF HIGH BASED
SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING NORTH OVER THE REST OF THE AREA THIS
EVENING. LATEST ETA SPREADS MOISTURE FURTHER NORTH THAN PREVIOUS
ETA...NOW MORE LIK"E THE AVN.  MOISTURE LINGERS INTO THURSDAY...BUT
AFTER TROUGH PASSAGE CONDITIONS RETURN TO DRY AND STABLE BY THURSDAY
EVENING.

SLC -222 CDC 2322  DUNN

.SLC...NONE.

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 231 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:32 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Carbon

When
July 25, 1:30 PM MST to 1:50 PM MST
Where
Carbon County, Price
Rating
F0
Path length
0.5 mi
Path width
20 yd
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
39.600, -110.817

An F0 tornado was spotted over open country about 10 miles southwest of Price.

What these are

Tornado
A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

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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: 5275571.