1 tornado, 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 Sep 4, 3:00 PM MST, 15 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 400 PM MDT TUE SEP 4 2001 SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LOW OVER SOUTHWEST UTAH WILL MOVE EAST NORTHEAST INTO COLORADAO LATE TONIGHT...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ENDING FROM THE WEST. BREEZY...MOSTLY DRY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP WEDNESDAY AHEAD OF A FALL-LIKE PACIFIC STORM. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN UTAH WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...BRINGING A CHANCE OF RAIN AND MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES TO MAINLY NORTHERN UTAH. DISCUSSION...THE UPPER LEVEL LOW IS OVER SOUTHWEST UTAH THIS AFTERNOON...WITH A LINE OF CONVECTION RIGHT UNDER THE CORE EXTENDING FROM SW TOOELE COUNTY TO ESCALANTE. NOT MUCH ACTIVITY NORTH AND SOUTH OF THIS AREA...WITH SCATTERED CONVECTION AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM OVER NE AND N CENTRAL UTAH. WILL TONE DOWN THE POPS N AND S PORTIONS...AND STILL HIT THINGS FAIRLY HARD UNDER THE PATH OF THE CORE OF THE LOW AS IT TRACK ENE. THINGS HAVE STABILIZED FAIRLY QUICKLY AS EXPECTED OVER THE SW CORNER OF UTAH. FOR TOMORROW...MAIN STORY WILL BE BREEZY/WINDY CONDITIONS DEVELOPING AHEAD OF STRONG FALL-LIKE COLD FRONT. HAVE KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS MAINLY NORTH DUE TO LINGERING INSTABILITY...MOISTURE...AND JET ASSOCIATED WITH WEAK SHORTWAVE CURRENTLY OFF OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. COLD FRONT MOVES INTO NW UTAH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...AND THROUGH SLC AROUND 12Z THURSDAY MORN...EARLIER IF YOU BELIEVE THE STRONGER AVN MODEL. FOR THIS PACKAGE HAVE GONE WITH THE AVG MODEL...GOING SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE SLOWER WARMER ETA...AND THE COLDER FASTER AVN. MODELS HITTING PREFRONTAL MOISTURE FAIRLY HARD OVER NW CORNER OF UTAH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...MAYBE PICKING UP ON POSSIBLE ENTRAINMENT OF SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE. FOR NOW...OWING TO UNCERTAINTY WITH MODELS WILL STAY WITH CHANCE POPS WED NIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR NORTHERN UTAH...AND MOSTLY DRY SOUTH. LIKELY POPS MTNS N OF I-80...WITH SNOW ABOVE 8000 FEET. MUCH COOLER THURSDAY...MAINLY NORTH. FRIDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND SEES A SLOW DRYING TREND AS HIGH PRESSURE REDEVELOPS. EC/UK/MRF HAVE DEEP TROUGH DEVELOP OVER THE PAC NW COAST EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH MRF PROGRESSING TROUGH THROUGH N GREAT BASIN TUESDAY...SO HAVE ADDED CHANCE POPS TO N UTAH FOR DAY 7. SLC 4244 CDC 1111 HOGAN .SLC...SPS FOR FALL-LIKE STORM AND MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES THURSDAY.
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:16 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A thunderstorm spawned a tornado which touched down 6 miles southwest of Milford, then lifted up and touched down again in the foothills east of Milford. It finally moved to about 10 miles northeast of town before dissipating. The entire event lasted about 15 minutes over open country.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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