1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 9, 2:00 PM MST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 300 PM MDT MON JUL 9 2001 SYNOPSIS...A VERY MOIST AIRMASS CONTINUES OVER UTAH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH SOME AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY. THE AIRMASS WILL SLOWLY DRY AND WARM BY LATE IN THE WEEK. DISCUSSION...SHORTWAVE MOVING NORTH INTO NORTHERN UTAH AND WEST THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN UTAH THIS AFTERNOON. EASTERLY WAVE MOVING TOWARD SOUTHERN END OF NM/AZ BORDER WITH SHORTWAVE AHEAD OF IT MOVING INTO MOGOLLON RIM. SOUTHERLY FLOW OVER UT W/ NEARLY NO FLOW JUST TO WEST IN NV. TONIGHT...FIRST SHORTWAVE OVER NORTHERN AND WESTERN UTAH SHOULD CONTINUE CONVECTION THROUGH EVENING BEFORE SUBSIDENCE TAKES OVER BEHIND IT. THIS WILL BE SHORT LIVED IN SOUTHERN UTAH AS FIRST PIECES OF EASTERLY WAVE MOVE INTO THIS AREA OVERNIGHT. NOT SURE HOW MUCH NOCTURNAL CONVECTION THIS WILL PRODUCE BUT WILL CERTAINLY NOT RULE IT OUT. AT THIS TIME THERE APPEARS TO BE JUST ENOUGH SOUTHERLY FLOW ALOFT TO KEEP MOST UT STORMS MOVING ALONG AND PREVENTING FLASH FLOODING...ALTHOUGH THERE ARE INDEED SOME SLOW MOVING STORMS ALONG THE NV BORDER. TUESDAY...REMNANTS OF EASTERLY WAVE SHOULD MOVE NORTHWARD THROUGH PRIMARILY EASTERN UT...BUT CLOSE ENOUGH TO CENTRAL MOUNTAINS TO KEEP HIGH PROBABILITY OF PRECIPITATION IN FORECAST THERE AND AT LEAST SOME MENTION IN WESTERN VALLEYS. FLOW ALOFT DECREASES BY THIS TIME AND THIS DAY MAY BE IN FACT MORE TROUBLESOME FOR BIG RAINERS THAN WHAT WAS EXPECTED FOR TODAY. TUESDAY NIGHT...500 MB TROUGH FINALLY MOVES THROUGH AND DRIER AIRMASS BEGINS TO WORK ITS WAY INTO STATE. WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IN FOR TROUGH PASSAGE. WEDNESDAY...WILL LEAVE A LOW MENTION OF PRECIPITATION IN...BUT IN GENERAL EXPECT A DRYING TREND TO BEGIN IN EARNEST AT THIS TIME...CONTINUING INTO THE WEEKEND. SLC 7542 CDC 7422 ZAFF .SLC...NONE. D
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:46 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Debris flowed over the highway in Parowan Canyon, and sandbags were used to protect homes from the rising water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, July 2001
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: 5275521.