1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Jun 9, 2:00 PM MST, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
300 PM MDT MON JUN 9 2003
.SYNOPSIS...A SURFACE TROUGH WILL REMAIN ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL UTAH
THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL TROUGHS PASSING BY TO
THE NORTH OF THE AREA.
.DISCUSSION...SURFACE TROUGH REMAINS OVER N UTAH AT THIS TIME WITH
DYNAMIC LIFT BEING PROVIDED BY SHORT WAVE TROUGH CENTERED IN EXTREME
SOUTHERN ID THIS AFTERNOON. WIDESPREAD CONVECTION OVER THE NORTHERN
2/3RDS OF THE FORECAST AREA WITH MAIN IMPACT BEING MICROBURST WINDS
AND A LITTLE RAIN. THIS ACTIVITY FORECAST BY ETA TO CONTINUE THROUGH
THE NIGHT BUT IT SHOULD BECOME MORE CONFINED TO THE AREAS NORTH OF
MANTI IN VICINITY OF SURFACE TROUGH.
REPEAT PERFORMANCE ON TAP FOR TUESDAY AS SURFACE BOUNDARY REMAINS
OVER THE AREA AND ANOTHER TROUGH PASSES BY TO THE NORTH...ALTHOUGH
THIS SECOND TROUGH IS FURTHER AWAY THAN TODAYS TROUGH...AGAIN ETA
GENERATES A BAND OF PRECIP SIMILAR TO TODAY.
SURFACE TROUGH CONTINUES INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK...BUT WITH LESS
DYNAMIC SUPPORT AND SOME DRYING. RESULT SHOULD BE MORE TERRAIN BASED
DIURNAL CONVECTION.
RED FLAG CONDITIONS SHOULD DIMINISH TUESDAY AS WINDS ALOFT DECREASE.
EXTENDED FORECAST BASED ON A DRIER WESTERLY FLOW.
SLC 3221 CDC ---- DUNN
.SLC...RED FLAG WARNING TODAY SOUTHWEST UTAH FOR STRONG WINDS AND
LOW HUMIDITY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING FIRE WEATHER
ZONES 435 AND 437 THRU 441.IDZ024-025-UTZ001>021-WYZ021-101300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 400 AM MDT MON JUN 9 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF UTAH...EXTREME SOUTHEAST IDAHO AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST WYOMING .DAY ONE... TODAY WINDY WEATHER WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHWEST UTAH. THE WINDS...COMBINED WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE SEVERE FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. A RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ISSUED THIS MORNING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 435 AND 438 THROUGH 441. SEE SLCRFWSLC FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 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
IDZ024-025-UTZ001>021-WYZ021-100500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 140 PM MDT MON JUN 9 2003 ...MICROBURST WIND GUSTS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING... STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH OR HIGHER WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS NEAR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED THIS AFTERNOON OVER AN AREA NORTH OF A LINE FROM CEDAR CITY TO HANKSVILLE AND MICROBURST WIND GUSTS HAVE BEEN OBSERVED. SOME OBSERVATIONS INCLUDE HORSE HOLLOW (MILLARD COUNTY) 49 MPH...SIGNAL PEAK (SEVIER COUNTY) 39 MPH...LOST CREEK (SEVIER COUNTY) 38 MPH...OTTER CREEK (RICH COUNTY) 43 MPH.
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 143 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:18 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A small tornado (F0) touched down in Payson in Utah County. The tornado damaged about 100 feet of vinyl fence and lifted a small aluminum boat off of its trailer. The path of the tornado was about 100 yards.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Utah, 2003Warnings in Utah, June 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: 5380318.