Severe thunderstorms brought strong winds but little rain to portions of Northern and Central Utah. Tree and shingle damage were the rule across the Wasatch Front and West Central deserts.
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The episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms brought strong winds but little rain to portions of Northern and Central Utah. Tree and shingle damage were the rule across the Wasatch Front and West Central deserts. Wind gusts from 60 to 75 mph (52 to 65 kts) were common with the storms, with a peak gust of 85 mph (74 kts) reported at Vernon Hill.
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 1, 9:30 AM MST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1030 AM MDT SAT JUN 1 2002 .SYNOPSIS...A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE NORTHWEST UTAH THIS MORNING WILL STALL OVER THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE BY THIS AFTERNOON. IT WILL THEN PUSH ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA MONDAY AS ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVES PAST THE AREA. .DISCUSSION...SHALLOW SURFACE COLD FRONT HAS MADE IT THROUGH MOST OF WESTERN UT BUT THE MORE SIGNIFICANT FRONT ALOFT CLEARLY DEFINED BY BAND OF CONVECTION EXTENDING FROM JUST WEST OF EVW TO JUST SOUTH OF DPG. THAT BAND HAS BEEN PUSHED BY A WELL DEFINED SHORTWAVE OVER NORTHEAST NV THAT IS MOVING SLOWLY EAST-NORTHEAST. THAT WAVE SHOULD TURN MORE NORTHERLY AND SHEAR AS IT TRIES TO MOVE INTO THE RIDGE OVER THE HIGH PLAINS. A SECOND SHORTWAVE IS OFF THE SOUTHERN CA COAST AND FORECAST TO MOVE NORTHEAST TOWARD SOUTH-CENTRAL UT BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. YET A THIRD SHORTWAVE IS ON THE COAST NEAR THE CA/OR BORDER AND FORECAST TO MOVE OVER NORTHERN UT EARLY MONDAY. THE ELEVATED FRONT ISNT GOING TO GO TOO MUCH FURTHER IN WESTER UT BECAUSE OF BACKING AHEAD OF THE SOUTHERN CA SHORTWAVE. THE NORTHERN PORTION WILL ALSO TEND TO STALL SOON. IN ADDITION TO THE LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS BOUNDARY A STRONG AREA OF DIVERGENCE DEVELOPS AT JET LEVEL TOWARD EVENING IN AN AREA COUPLED BETWEEN THE ENTRANCE REGION OF A JET ASSOCIATED WITH THE FIRST WAVE THAT WILL BE OVER WY BY THEN AND THE EXIT REGION OF A JET ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOUTHERN CA WAVE. RESULT SHOULD BE A NICE ENHANCEMENT OF CONVECTION ALONG THE ELEVATED FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE WHOLE COMPLEX SHIFTS SOUTH AND EAST MONDAY AS THE THE MAIN TROF AXIS MOVES PAST THE AREA. SLC 566 CDC 134 SANDERS .SLC...NONE
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 166 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:13 UTC.
8 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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, June 2002
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: 5324285, 5324287, 5324289, 5324290, 5324288, 5324291, 5324286, 5324292.