1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Jan 13, 3:55 AM MST, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 355 AM MST SUN JAN 13 2002 .SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE WILL RETURN TO UTAH TODAY. THE NEXT PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE GREAT BASIN FOR LATE MONDAY AND TUESDAY. .DISCUSSION...SHORTWAVE CLIPPING THE EXTREME NRN PORTION OF UT AND SE ID PRODUCING LITTLE MORE THAN CLOUDS AND OCCASIONAL FLURRIES THIS MORNING. MAIN DYNAMIC ENERGY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FEATURE REMAINED WELL NORTH OF THE STATE...AS DID THE MID-LEVEL COLD AIR. LOW-LEVEL COLD ADVECTION OVER THE NRN PORTION OF STATE WILL HAVE THE BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF TURNING OVER THE VALLEY INVERSION...GIVING US AT LEAST A DAY OF IMPROVED AIR QUALITY. TROUGH MOVING THROUGH THE GULF OF ALASKA NEAR 140W WILL BE THE NEXT FEATURE TO AFFECT THE GREAT BASIN REGION. AMPLIFYING RIDGE BEHIND THIS FEATURE WILL ALLOW THE TROUGH TO DIVE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AND CLOSE OFF OVER THE PACIFIC NW MONDAY. FROM THERE THE CLOSED FEATURE PUSHES EAST ACROSS NRN NV/SRN ID MONDAY NIGHT WHILE A REMNANT PIECE OF THE TROUGH DIGS SOUTH AMD ELONGATES ACROSS NV/CA. THE LOW THAT CUTS ACROSS ERN ID/NRN UT LATE MONDAY NIGHT/EARLY TUESDAY HAS A GOOD AMOUNT OF COLD AIR NEAR ITS CORE. THIS COLD AIR AND DYNAMICS SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT FOR A BIT OF ACCUMULATING SNOW IN THE NRN ZONES THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. OF MORE INTEREST IS WHAT COULD BE DEVELOPING FOR THE SRN HALF OF THE STATE FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE COMING WEEK. FIRST OFF A BAROCLINIC ZONE SETS UP OVER THE SRN THIRD OF THE STATE BY TUESDAY. THIS IS THEN FOLLOWED BY THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UPPER LOW OVER CNTRL/SRN CA BY WEDNESDAY. THIS IN TURN LEADS TO A GOOD WARM ADVECTION PATTERN ACROSS NRN AZ/SRN UT WITH A COUPLED POLAR AND SUBTROPICAL JETS NEAR THE 4-CORNERS REGION WEDNESDAY NIGHT. ADD TO THIS A SHORTWAVE EJECTING OUT OF CA AND ACROSS SRN UT THURSDAY. THE AVN MODEL RESPONSES TO THIS WITH AN INCREASE IN PRECIP WEDNESDAY NIGHT/THURSDAY. CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE HAS A CHANCE OF PRECIP BOTH DAYS FOR SRN UT. INCLINED TO KEEP THIS MIDDLE GROUND FORECAST CONSIDERING HOW THE DETAILS KEEP CHANGING WITH EACH MODEL RUN. A REMNANT OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED TROUGH PROGGED TO REMAIN OVER THE STATE INTO NEXT WEEKEND. DONT SEE A GREAT THREAT OF PRECIP...EVEN FOR SRN UT...AS THE BAROCLINIC ZONE SHIFTS SOUTH OUT THE STATE. COULD SEE SOME SHOWER ACTIVITY FOR THE SOUTH FRIDAY/SATURDAY...BUT NOT LOOKING FOR ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT RIGHT NOW. SLC 100 CDC 000 CONGER .SLC...NONE.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong downslope winds blew through parts of Eastern Utah in Carbon and Emery counties. Minor wind damage was reported in Ferron, where wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph (52 kts).
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, January 2002
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