1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 Aug 30, 8:55 PM MST, 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 955 PM MDT WED AUG 30 2006 .SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL PACIFIC TROUGH OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN GREAT BASIN AND NORTHERN ROCKIES THROUGH THURSDAY. THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP SOUTH ACROSS UTAH OVERNIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL RETURN FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. && .DISCUSSION...STATIONARY SURFACE TROUGH ACROSS NORTHWEST UTAH THIS AFTERNOON HAS KEPT PREDOMINANTLY NORTHWESTERLY WINDS OVER THE NORTHWEST DESERTS...BUT WINDS WERE PRETTY MUCH SOUTH OR VARIABLE OVER MANY AREAS ALONG THE WASATCH FRONT. WITH UPPER TROUGH AXIS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL IDAHO THIS EVENING AND 700MB BAROCLINIC ZONE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST UTAH...COLD FRONT HAS FINALLY MADE ITS PUSH INTO THE WASATCH FRONT THIS EVENING WITH FROPA AT KSLC NEAR 03Z. WINDS WERE STRONG ACROSS MANY AREAS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN UTAH TODAY AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AND WITH DRY AIRMASS IN PLACE...RED FLAG CRITERIA HAVE BEEN MET IN MANY OF THE AREAS WHERE WARNINGS WERE IN PLACE. A FEW HIGH BASED THUNDERSTORMS MANAGED TO POP UP THIS EVENING OVER THE TOOELE VALLEY AND WASATCH FRONT NEAR AREA OF LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED A FEW WIND GUSTS IN THE 40MPH RANGE. A BAND OF SHOWERS/VIRGA IS STILL EVIDENT ON RADAR ALONG A LINE FROM EASTERN JUAB COUNTY INTO THE WESTERN UINTAS...BUT CURRENTLY ONLY SEEING ABOUT 35DBZ MAX REFLECTIVITY AND NO LIGHTNING STRIKES. THUS...THINGS LOOK LIKE THEY ARE TAPERING OFF AND CURRENT PACKAGE WILL PROBABLY BE OKAY WITH NO MENTION OF PRECIP AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. THE 700MB BAROCLINIC ZONE IS ONLY PROGGED TO MAKE IT TO CENTRAL UTAH. MEANWHILE THE SURFACE FRONT WILL PUSH ALL THE WAY INTO SOUTHEAST UTAH TOMORROW. COOLER TEMPERATURES WILL SETTLE OVER NORTHERN UTAH TOMORROW AS 700MB TEMPS DROP TO 6-8C. THE COOLING MAY BE SLIGHTLY UNDERDONE IN THE MODELS...AS 700MB TEMPS AT KBOI AT 00Z WAS -3C...1 TO 2 DEGREES BELOW PROGGED. EITHER WAY...EXPECT SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN UTAH TOMORROW...ALTHOUGH COOLING WILL NOT BE AS DRAMATIC OVER THE SOUTH. TEMPERATURES SLOWLY WARM BACK UP THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS HIGH PRESSURE RETURNS TO THE AREA. WILL UPDATE FORECAST MAINLY TO REDUCE SKY COVER FOR TONIGHT FOR SOME ZONES. && .AVIATION...BREEZY POSTFRONTAL WINDS AT SLC WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE LATE THIS EVENING...BUT WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO STAY OUT OF THE NORTHWEST THROUGH TOMORROW AFTERNOON. WITH AIRMASS BECOMING STABLE BEHIND THE FRONT...THUNDERSTORMS NOT ANTICIPATED THE REST OF TONIGHT OR TOMORROW. && .FIRE WEATHER...RED FLAG CRITERIA HAVE BEEN MET IN MANY AREAS WHERE THE RED FLAG WARNINGS WERE IN PLACE. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS HAVE MODERATED THIS EVENING AND THE WARNINGS WERE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. THE COLD FRONT HAS PUSHED ACROSS NORTHWEST UTAH...AND HUMIDITIES HAVE RISEN ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS AS A RESULT...ALTHOUGH WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY THROUGH THE LATE EVENING HOURS. OVER SOUTHERN UTAH AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WINDS HAVE DECREASED. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MAKE IT INTO SOUTHWEST AND EAST CENTRAL UTAH BY EARLY MORNING. HUMIDITIES ARE FORECAST TO RECOVER NICELY BEHIND THE FRONT TONIGHT...AND DO NOT EXPECT ANY WIDESPREAD AREAS OF STRONG WINDS OR LOW RH ON THURSDAY. && .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...NONE. WY...NONE. && CHENG
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 700 AM MDT WED AUG 30 2006 UTZ001>021-WYZ021-311300- CACHE VALLEY/UTAH PORTION-CASTLE COUNTRY-CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS-GLEN CANYON RECREATION AREA/LAKE POWELL-GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT AND MOUNTAINS-HENRY MOUNTAINS-NORTHERN WASATCH FRONT-SALT LAKE AND TOOELE VALLEYS-SAN RAFAEL SWELL-SANPETE/SEVIER VALLEYS-SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH-SOUTHERN WASATCH FRONT-SOUTHWEST UTAH-SOUTHWEST WYOMING- UTAHS DIXIE AND ZION NATIONAL PARK-WASATCH MOUNTAIN VALLEYS-WASATCH MOUNTAINS I-80 NORTH-WASATCH MOUNTAINS SOUTH OF I-80-WASATCH PLATEAU/BOOK CLIFFS-WEST CENTRAL UTAH-WESTERN UINTA BASIN-WESTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS- 700 AM MDT WED AUG 30 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF UTAH AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY A COLD FRONT SWEEPING SOUTH OUT OF EXTREME NORTHWEST UTAH WILL GENERATE MODERATE TO STRONG SOUTH WINDS OVER WESTERN UTAH. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES COMBINED WITH THE WINDS WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER MUCH OF THE WESTERN HALF OF UTAH THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY COOLER TEMPERATURES WILL FOLLOW THE FRONT SOUTH THROUGH UTAH THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL RETURN DURING THE WEEKEND...BRINGING A GRADUAL WARMING TRENDS TO THE INTERMOUNTAIN REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Rosebud RAWS reported gusts to 60mph behind a cold front.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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