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 Jun 26, 8:40 AM MST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 940 AM MDT TUE JUN 26 2001 SYNOPSIS...A VERY MOIST BUT SOMEWHAT STABLE AIR MASS WILL BE OVER UTAH TODAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL LOW TRACKS ACROSS THE AREA. SOME DRYING WILL BEGIN ON WEDNESDAY BUT ALSO BECOME A LITTLE MORE UNSTABLE. SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL REACH ITS PEAK TODAY...THEN DECREASE SOMEWHAT ON WEDNESDAY. DISCUSSION...OVERALL GAME PLAN LOOKS GOOD. REMAINS OF THE EJECTING LOW WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS OUR FORECAST AREA THROUGH THIS EVENING AS A FAIRLY STRONG SHORTWAVE. THE MAIN VORTICITY CENTER CURRENTLY OVER SOUTHWEST UT FORECAST TO TRACK TOWARD THE UINTA BASIN BRINGING THE ASSOCIATED COMMA HEAD ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN UT. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH IT IS THAT IT MAY TAKE A LITTLE MORE WESTWARD TRACK THAN THE MODELS INDICATE WHICH HAS BEEN THE PATTERN WITH THE INITIAL WAVES MOVING OUT. COLDEST CLOUD TOPS ARE SHIFTING A LITTLE NORTHWEST RATHER THAN NORTHEAST SO THE BEST DYNAMICS MAY BE GOING TO TRACK MORE TOWARD NORTHWEST UT. CLOUDINESS IN THIS AREA WILL BE WIDESPREAD AND THICK WHICH WILL INHIBIT STRONG CONVECTION SO WE MAY BE LOOKING MORE AT SCATTERED SHOWERS WITH ONLY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTH. THE CORE OF THE LOW IS IN NORTHWEST AZ AND WILL PROVIDE INSTABILITY WITH THE COOLEST TEMPERATURES ALOFT AS IT TRACKS NORTHEAST. ALREADY A COUPLE OF LIGHTNING STRIKES IN THAT AREA THIS MORNING. WITH A BIT OF CLEARING BEHIND THE SHORTWAVE TO THE NORTH THERE WILL BE A LITTLE INSOLATION TO HELP FIRE ACTIVITY. WITH PLENTY OF PRECIPITABLE WATER AVAILABLE SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. AS THE WIND SPEEDS OVER THE SOUTH BEGIN TO DROP THIS AFTERNOON IT WILL INCREASE THAT POTENTIAL. WE WILL UPDATE OUR FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL TO GO TO HIGH OVER MUCH OF THE SOUTH FOR THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING AND UPDATE THOSE ZONES TO PUT LOCALLY HEAVY INTO THE PACKAGE. WILL PROBABLY ISSUE A SPECIAL STATEMENT TO INCREASE THE AWARNESS OF THE HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL. WE WILL ALSO UPDATE THE NORTHERN ZONES TO RAISE PROBABILITIES BUT WITH THE EMPHASIS MORE ON SHOWERS THAN THUNDERSTORMS . BEYOND THAT THE TRENDS LOOK OK WITH RESIDUAL MOISTURE AND ANOTHER SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY KEEPING SOME ACTIVITY GOING. SLC 552 CDC 532 SANDERS .SLC...NONE.
UTZ013-017>021-262300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1015 AM MDT TUE JUN 26 2001 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHERN UTAH... THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHERN UTAH TODAY. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL. THESE STORMS WILL INITIALLY BE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT ABOUT 20 MPH. HOWEVER AS THE DAY PROGRESSES THE MOVEMENT WILL BECOME MORE NORTHEASTERLY AND SLOW TO ONLY ABOUT 10 MPH. THIS SLOW MOVEMENT WILL INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING IN THE NARROW SLOT CANYONS IN SOUTHERN UTAH. HIKERS MAY WANT TO POSTPONE TRIPS TO THESE HIGH RISK CANYONS UNTIL WEDNESDAY WHEN THE THREAT OF FLOODING WILL BE REDUCED. ANYONE WHO DOES GO HIKING IN NARROW DEEP CANYONS TODAY SHOULD BE AWARE THAT FLOODING CAN DEVELOP VERY RAPIDLY AND CAN BE THE RESULT OF STORMS MANY MILES AWAY. WATCH FOR POSSIBLE ESCAPE ROUTES OR AREAS THAT MIGHT PROVIDE PROTECTION IN THE EVENT OF FLOODING.
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:59 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A torrential downpour caused flash flooding in central and eastern Kane County. A normally dry wash in the Paria River Drainage filled with 8 feet of rushing water in a mater of minutes. Many other dry washes in the area were running full as well. No injuries or damage was reported.
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, June 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: 5275272.