1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 2, 5:11 AM MST, 9 hours 4 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 611 AM MDT FRI AUG 2 2002 .SYNOPSIS...MOISTURE OVER THE AREA TODAY WILL SHIFT EAST TONIGHT. AN INCREASINGLY STRONG AND DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL DEVELOP OVER THE WEEKEND. .DISCUSSION...MOISTURE SURGING NORTH ACROSS THE AREA ALOFT. SURFACE DEW POINTS AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY HAS BEEN SLOW TO RESPOND. ONE VORT MAX IS OVER SOUTHWEST IDAHO MOVING AWAY FROM UTAH. LARGER SYSTEM OVER NORTHWEST ARIZONA WILL MOVE ACROSS UTAH TODAY. WEAK DEFORMATION AXIS SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHERN UTAH. TONIGHT MOISTURE AND DYNAMICS SHIFT EAST. ADDITIONAL DYNAMICS DEVELOP OVER THE AREA SATURDAY AS REMAINS OF CIRCULATION WEST OF KSFO MOVES BY. SHOULD BE ENOUGH LINGERING MOISTURE FOR A ROUND OF CONVECTION SATURDAY. ALSO AVN STILL SHOWS 60 KNOT 300 MB JET SUPPORTING STORMS. EVEN AT LOW LEVELS SOUTHWEST FLOW BEGINS TO INCREASE SATURDAY WITH DRIER AIR WORKING ACROSS THE NEVADA BORDER. INCREASINGLY STRONG SOUTHWEST FLOW AND DRY AIRMASS TO DOMINATE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. BACKED OFF SOME ON WINDY WORDING THIS MORNING. TROF OVER THE PACIFIC COAST SHOULD STALL AND TIGHTEN GRADIENTS OVER UTAH. RIDGE THEN PROGGED TO REBOUND MID TO LATE WEEK. POTENTIALLY A GOOD SURGE OF MONSOON MOISTURE RETURNING TO THE AREA LATE IN THE WEEK. SLC 432 CDC 420 GIBSON .SLC...NONE.
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:15 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong thunderstorm winds blew through the west deserts near Dugway. Two mesonet stations recorded severe winds gusts, one of 73 mph (64 kts) and one at 61 mph (53 kts).
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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