Severe thunderstorm wind gusts knocked down power lines and blew over trees.
Every event with a place to put it; 4 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts knocked down power lines and blew over trees.
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, 8:40 PM MST, 16 hours 20 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 840 PM MST SAT JUN 1 2002 .SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE AREA TONIGHT TONIGHT AND SUNDAY PUSHING A COLD FRONT TO CENTRAL UTAH BY LATE IN THE DAY. .DISCUSSION...RADAR AND SATELLITE SHOWING PRECIPITATION MOVING INTO NORTHWEST UTAH WITH THE NEXT UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT. MOST CLOUDINESS AND PRECIPITATION SHOULD REMAIN IN THE NORTH TONIGHT BUT EXTEND FURTHER SOUTH ON SUNDAY AS COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO PUSH SOUTH. HAVE UPDATED SOME NORTHERN ZONES TO REFLECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST AND ADJUSTED TIMING OF PRECIPITATION. SLC 5556 CDC -133 TORONTO .SLC...RED FLAG WARNING CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN UTAH UNTIL 04Z.
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:00 UTC.
4 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: 5324293, 5324296, 5324294, 5324295.