1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Aug 3, 9:00 AM MST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1000 AM MDT SUN AUG 3 2003 .SYNOPSIS...A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL REMAIN OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE AREA TODAY. A DRIER SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL SLOWLY DEVELOP OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF THE WEEK. .DISCUSSION...AIR MASS OVER THE NORTH STILL VERY MOIST AND FORECAST TO REMAIN FAIRLY UNSTABLE THROUGH AT LEAST EARLY EVENING. IN ADDITION A WELL DEFINED SHORTWAVE OVER EAST CENTRAL NV WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. CAN SEE NO REASON IT WILL NOT BE AN ACTIVE CONVECTION DAY WITH EVEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF ISOLATED STRONG STORMS. EXTENSIVE CLOUDS OVER THE AREAS EAST OF I-15 WILL SLOW THE HEATING THERE THIS MORNING BUT ACTIVITY ALREADY BEGINNING TO DEVELOP AGAIN IN SOUTHWEST TOOELE COUNTY. ALSO A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS STILL OVER THE NORTHERN WASATCH FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK SHORTWAVE THAT RIPPLED NORTH ALONG THE BOUNDARY OF THE TROPICAL MOISTURE PLUME. THERE SHOULD BE BRIEF SUPPRESSION BEHIND THIS WEAK WAVE BUT THE WAVE IN NV SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM OVERCOMING THIS AS IT APPROACHES. HAVE UPDATED MOST NORTHERN ZONES FOR MORE CONVECTION TODAY. SOME QUESTION ABOUT TIMING FOR THIS EVENING AS MODELS SUGGEST THE SHORTWAVE AND JET WILL BE PAST MUCH OF THE AREA. WE MAY NEED TO LOWER THE THREAT IN AT LEAST SOME OF THE WESTERN ZONES IN THE AFTERNOON PACKAGE BUT FOR NOW WOULD RATHER WAIT AND SEE HOW THINGS DEVELOP TODAY. SLC 430 CDC 110 SANDERS .SLC...NONE.
IDZ024-025-UTZ001>021-WYZ021-041300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 316 AM MDT SUN AUG 3 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF UTAH...EXTREME SOUTHEAST IDAHO AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST WYOMING .DAY ONE... TODAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM AGAIN TODAY ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN UTAH AS WELL AS EXTREME SOUTHEAST IDAHO AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST WYOMING. THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE. WCJIN-WYSW
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:16 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck the roof of a residence in North Ogden, burning four holes and traveling 30 feet to start a house fire.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, August 2003
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: 5379838.