Showers and thunderstorms occurred across much of northern Utah, and a man was killed by a lightning strike.
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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.
Showers and thunderstorms occurred across much of northern Utah, and a man was killed by a lightning strike.
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 Oct 13, 1:57 PM MST, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 257 PM MDT SAT OCT 13 2007 .SYNOPSIS...WEAK PACIFIC TROUGH WILL MOVE OUT THROUGH EASTERN UTAH TONIGHT AND EXIT THE STATE EARLY SUNDAY. HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL RETURN FOR SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. && .DISCUSSION...SATELLITE WATER VAPOR NOW PUTS UPPER TROUGH AXIS ABOUT TO A ROCK SPRINGS-DUCHESNE-RICHFIELD LINE ON ITS EVENTUAL DEPARTURE FROM THE STATE TOMORROW. AIRMASS REMAINS MOIST WITH WRAP AROUND MOISTURE STREAMING SOUTHWARD TO THE WEST OF THE TROUGH AXIS. THOUGHT EARLIER THAT ONGOING SHOWERS WOULD INCREASE A BIT AND MAINTAIN THEMSELVES WELL INTO THE EVENING OVER WESTERN UTAH...BUT AFTER CLOUDS THINNED AND SUN CAME OUT FOR A WHILE...PRECIPITATION BECAME VERY SHOWERY AND MOSTLY ALOFT AS FAR WEST AS CENTRAL NEVADA WHERE BACK EDGE IS NOW LOCATED. EXPECT ISOLATED SHOWERS TO CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING OVER THE WEST BUT PROBABLY WILL DIMINISH BEFORE MIDNIGHT. OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF UTAH...WHERE CLOUDS WERE THINNER THIS MORNING...SHOWERS HAVE BEGUN TO DEVELOP WITH AN OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING STRIKE OR TWO. THIS AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO FILL IN OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND CONTINUE UNTIL LATE THIS EVENING. LONGEST LINGERING SHOWERS STILL APPEAR TO BE IN THE UINTAS WHERE CYCLONIC FLOW AND UPSLOPE NORTHEAST WINDS WILL PERSIST THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. PLENTY OF CLOUD COVER WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE AREA INTO SUNDAY AS THE 700MB MOISTURE IS IN NO HURRY TO MOVE OUT UNTIL LATE SUNDAY MORNING. NARROW SHARP RIDGE TO FOLLOW FOR LATTER HALF OF SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. NEXT RATHER WEAK SPLITTING SYSTEM EXPECTED TUESDAY AFTERNOON AS THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF SHORT WAVES BREAKS OFF THE DEVELOPING LOW IN THE GULF OF ALASKA AND TEARS APART AS IT MOVES INLAND. LATEST GFS THEN BRINGS STRONGER SHORT WAVES ON WEDNESDAY AND AGAIN THURSDAY WITH EACH SUCCESSIVE SYSTEM A LITTLE STRONGER THAN THE LAST. THESE WAVES APPEAR TO MOVE RATHER RAPIDLY THROUGH THE NORTHERN GREAT BASIN. FRIDAY WILL SEE A SHORT WAVE RIDGE DEVELOP WITH A ZONAL FLOW THAT TURNS SOUTHWEST SATURDAY AND INCREASES AS THE MAIN TROUGH FINALLY BEGINS TO DROP INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BEFORE EVENTUALLY MOVING ACROSS THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .FIRE WEATHER...FIRE WEATHER SITUATION REMAINING FAIRLY BENIGN THE NEXT FEW DAYS WITH LIGHT WINDS. WINDS DO PICK UP TUESDAY AFTERNOON BUT WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES REMAINING ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS...DO NOT FORESEE ANY RED FLAG WARNINGS NECESSARY. TODAYS AFTERNOON FIRE WEATHER PLANNING FORECAST WAS THE LAST ISSUED FOR THE SEASON. THE MORNING PLANNING FORECAST WILL CONTINUE THROUGH OCTOBER 27TH UNLESS OTHERWISE DICTATED. && .AVIATION...WITH SHOWERS WEAKENING...CEILINGS SHOULD RISE ABOVE 7000 FT AT THE SLC TERMINAL BY THE EARLY EVENING. NORTHWESTERLY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO PREVAIL UNTIL SOUTHEASTERLY DRAINAGE WINDS BECOME ESTABLISHED SOMETIME BETWEEN 03Z AND 04Z. && .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...NONE. WY...NONE. && PUBLIC.........YOUNG FIRE WEATHER...B. SMITH AVIATION.......TRAPHAGAN FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SALTLAKECITY (ALL LOWER CASE)
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 507 AM MDT SAT OCT 13 2007 UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-141200- CACHE VALLEY/UTAH PORTION-NORTHERN WASATCH FRONT- SALT LAKE AND TOOELE VALLEYS-SOUTHERN WASATCH FRONT- GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT AND MOUNTAINS-WASATCH MOUNTAIN VALLEYS- WASATCH MOUNTAINS I-80 NORTH-WASATCH MOUNTAINS SOUTH OF I-80- WESTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS-WASATCH PLATEAU/BOOK CLIFFS- WESTERN UINTA BASIN-CASTLE COUNTRY-SAN RAFAEL SWELL- SANPETE/SEVIER VALLEYS-WEST CENTRAL UTAH-SOUTHWEST UTAH- UTAHS DIXIE AND ZION NATIONAL PARK-SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH- GLEN CANYON RECREATION AREA/LAKE POWELL-CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS-SOUTHWEST WYOMING- 507 AM MDT SAT OCT 13 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL AFFECT THE REGION TODAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...MAINLY IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN. SNOW LEVELS WILL BE ABOVE 8000 FEET WHERE A COUPLE INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED IN SOME MOUNTAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY DRY WEATHER IS FORECAST FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL AFFECT THE REGION LATE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. A STRONGER WEATHER SYSTEM COULD BRING PRECIPITATION AND LOWER SNOW LEVELS BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. TARDY FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SALTLAKECITY (ALL LOWER CASE)
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 187 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:01 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A 60-year-old male was struck and killed by lightning while camping near Poison Mountain in the Uinta Mountain range. The man, along with his son and brother, sought shelter in a tent. All three people were injured, but only the one died.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Summit | 2007-10-13 | 60 | Male | Camping | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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