Flash Flood in Garleys Canyon. SUV with 5 occupants (2 adults, 3 children) overtaken by flood waters.
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The episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
Flash Flood in Garleys Canyon. SUV with 5 occupants (2 adults, 3 children) overtaken by flood waters. 5 year old boy and 1 year old boy drowned. 3 year old girl sustained non-life threatening injuries. 2 adults uninjured.
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 Jul 30, 3:01 PM MST, 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 401 PM MDT SUN JUL 30 2006 .SYNOPSIS...UPPER HIGH WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AND SETTLE OVER THE PLAINS STATES OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. AIRMASS WILL REMAIN MOIST INTO THE EARLY PART OF THE COMING WEEK. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN UTAH EARLY TUESDAY. && .DISCUSSION...SHORTWAVE OVER SOUTHERN UTAH THIS MORNING TRACKING TO THE NORTHEAST. CONVECTION DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL UTAH AND SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. NOTHING OVER NORTHWEST UTAH AT THIS TIME AND MAY NOT SEE MUCH AS MOST ENERGY WITH THE SHORT WAVE REMAINS TO THE EAST OF THE WASATCH FRONT AND NORTHWEST DESERT. LOWERED POPS OVER THE NORTHWEST THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH ARE MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND ARE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST. POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN IN SOME OF THESE STORMS IS PRESENT. MAIN AREA OF CONCERN IS ALONG NORTHERN KANE COUNTY WHERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED AND ARE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST. NOTHING OVER THE FAR SOUTHWEST AS OF YET...ALTHOUGH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST ARIZONA ARE HEADING FOR UTAH AND WILL PROBABLY CROSS INTO UTAH LATER THIS AFTERNOON. DUE TO THE DEVELOPMENT FARTHER TO THE EAST TODAY HAVE UPDATED THE FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL RATING TO MODERATE OVER THE SOUTHEAST. UPPER TROUGH EXPECTED TO MOVE ON SHORE MONDAY AND TURN WINDS OVER UTAH TO THE SOUTHWEST LATER MONDAY. ENOUGH MOISTURE WILL REMAIN MONDAY FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. TROUGH THEN CONTINUES EASTWARD KEEPING RIDGE OVER THE GREAT PLAINS AS IT SLIDES OVER THE TOP OF THE RIDGE AND PUSHES THROUGH THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE STATE. WEAK FRONT LOOKS TO BE A LITTLE SLOWER AND PROBABLY WONT PUSH INTO UTAH UNTIL TUESDAY MORNING. ADJUSTED POPS ACCORDINGLY. WESTERLY FLOW WILL DOMINATE FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK AS NEXT OCCASIONAL WEAK EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES KEEP THE RIDGE FROM REBUILDING OVER THE INTERIOR WEST. SEASONAL OR BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THURSDAY AND WITH PATCHY MOISTURE AROUND ISOLATED CONVECTION NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. RIDGE MAY BEGIN TO MOVE BACK WESTWARD AS NEXT WEAK TROUGH BEGINS TO DEVELOP OVER PACIFIC NORTHWEST. THIS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO INCH UPWARD AS MOISTURE BEGINS TO SEEP BACK INTO THE STATE FROM THE SOUTH. && .AVIATION...DRIER AIR IS STARTING TO WORK ITS WAY INTO NORTHWEST UTAH. ONLY EXPECT A 10 PERCENT CHANCE OF ANY THUNDERSTORMS MAKING IT OVER THE KSLC TERMINAL TODAY. IF THUNDERSTORMS DO OCCUR...THIS WILL LIKELY HAPPEN BETWEEN 23Z AND 03Z. WINDS MAY STAY OUT OF THE NORTHWEST UNTIL 04-05Z TONIGHT DUE TO A NORTHWESTERLY SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT. && .FIRE WEATHER...SOME DRIER AIR WILL WORK ITS WAY INTO NORTHWEST SECTIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING BUT STILL THERE WILL BE THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. FARTHER SOUTH DEEP MOISTURE REMAINS AND WETTING RAINS WILL OCCUR WITH ANY STORMS THROUGH MONDAY. COOLER TEMPERATURES WILL FILTER IN FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. && .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...NONE. WY...NONE. && PUBLIC.........YOUNG FIRE WEATHER...STRUTHWOLF AVIATION.......CHENG
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 700 AM MDT SUN JUL 30 2006 UTZ001>011-WYZ021-311300- CACHE VALLEY/UTAH PORTION-GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT AND MOUNTAINS- NORTHERN WASATCH FRONT-SALT LAKE AND TOOELE VALLEYS-SOUTHERN WASATCH FRONT-SOUTHWEST WYOMING-WASATCH MOUNTAIN VALLEYS-WASATCH MOUNTAINS I-80 NORTH-WASATCH MOUNTAINS SOUTH OF I-80-WASATCH PLATEAU/BOOK CLIFFS-WESTERN UINTA BASIN-WESTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS- 700 AM MDT SUN JUL 30 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS NORTHERN UTAH AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS MORNING WILL DEVELOP AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY THE FRONT. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL BACK TO NEAR OR BELOW SEASONAL NORMS FOR THE MIDDLE TO LATTER HALF OF THE COMING WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. UTZ012>021-311300- CASTLE COUNTRY-CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS-GLEN CANYON RECREATION AREA/LAKE POWELL-HENRY MOUNTAINS-SAN RAFAEL SWELL-SANPETE/SEVIER VALLEYS-SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH-SOUTHWEST UTAH-UTAHS DIXIE AND ZION NATIONAL PARK-WEST CENTRAL UTAH- 700 AM MDT SUN JUL 30 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN UTAH. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE GREATEST CONCENTRATION OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND FAR SOUTHWEST VALLEYS OF UTAH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY MOISTURE WILL LINGER OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PORTION OF UTAH DURING THE WEEK. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN THIS MOISTURE EACH DAY DURING THE COMING WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 214 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:29 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood, Carbon | 2006-07-30 | 5 | Male | In Water | Direct |
| Flash Flood, Carbon | 2006-07-30 | 1 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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