Funnel Cloud, Cache
- When
- July 18, 1:00 PM MST
- Where
- Cache County, Logan
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.722, -111.744 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A funnel cloud was spotted briefly near Logan.
Funnel Cloud in Utah, July 18, 2002
1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 18, 9:14 AM MST, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 9:14 AM MST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1014 AM MDT THU JUL 18 2002 .SYNOPSIS...A LIGHT SOUTHERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL KEEP A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR WILL MOVE IN FROM THE SOUTHWEST STARTING FRIDAY. .DISCUSSION...UPPER LOW WRAPPING UP OVER THE SIERRAS. WITH THE HIGH CENTERED OVER COLORADO...MOISTURE CONTINUES TO MOVE INTO THE FORECAST AREA FROM THE SOUTH. A WAVE IS MOVING UP OUT AHEAD OF THE LOW EXTENDING FROM NORTH-CENTRAL NEVADA INTO NORTHWEST UTAH STRETCHING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH. SOME ORGANIZED CONVECTION PRESENT WITH THIS FEATURE OVER NORTHWEST UTAH THIS MORNING. EVEN THOUGH SOME DRYING APPARENT IN THE WATER VAPOR IMAGERY ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST...PW VALUES STILL ABOVE .75 THERE. AFTERNOON DIFFERENTIAL HEATING WILL SPARK SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON IN AREAS FREE OF CLOUDS THIS MORNING. SOME COLD AIR ALOFT HAS WORKED INTO THE WESTERN DESERTS THIS MORNING AS WELL. THIS SHOULD HELP TO DESTABILIZE THE AIR MASS AND BRING MORE WIDESPREAD CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. EXPECT THE COLD AIR WILL ALSO KEEP CONVECTION GOING A LITTLE LONGER THROUGH THE NIGHT THAN THE PAST COUPLE NIGHTS. SCATTERED POPS AND CLOUD COVER ALL HANDLED WELL THIS MORNING AND NO UPDATES PLANNED. LOW TO LIFT ACROSS NEVADA TOMORROW AND THROUGH IDAHO SATURDAY. FOR FRIDAY...COLD POCKET TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA INTO NORTHWEST UTAH. CONVECTION SHOULD BE A BIT MORE ORGANIZED WITH THIS COOLING. SOME DRYING TO START ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST. SOME WARMING ALOFT TO MOVE IN AT THIS TIME AS WELL BRINGING A LESSENED CHANCE OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY. THIS DRYING AND STABILIZATION TO SPREAD NORTH AND EAST AS THE LOW LIFTS THROUGH IDAHO SATURDAY. ENOUGH INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW FOR WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY IN THE NORTHERN ZONES. ISOLATED ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN OVER THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS. SLC 553 CDC 441 NELSON .SLC...NONE.
The radar
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 78 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:01 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in Oregon, July 18, 2002
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 18, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Indiana, July 18, 2002
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, July 18, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 18, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Michigan, July 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 18, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 18, 2002
- Tornado in Minnesota, July 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 18, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 18, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 18, 2002
More
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Sources
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: 5324590.