A weak weather disturbance brought snow to parts of Utah on the 24th. The feature stalled over southern Utah and brought locally heavy snow to the southern mountains.
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The episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
A weak weather disturbance brought snow to parts of Utah on the 24th. The feature stalled over southern Utah and brought locally heavy snow to the southern mountains.
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 Jan 23, 9:15 PM MST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 915 PM MST WED JAN 23 2008 .SYNOPSIS...A CLOSED UPPER LOW STALLED ALONG THE CALIFORNIA COAST WILL MOVE ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY. THIS LOW WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A STRONGER SYSTEM SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY. && .DISCUSSION...STRATUS AND SNOW GRAINS FILLING INTO THE SALT LAKE VALLEY THIS EVENING WITH MIN TEMPERATURES LIKELY ALREADY REACHED. OTHER AREAS OF LOW CLOUDS FROM CEDAR CITY NORTH ACROSS WEST CENTRAL UTAH AND INTO UTAH VALLEY. THIN BAND OF HIGH CLOUDS MOVING ON TOP OF THIS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL UTAH. COLD MINIMUM TEMPERATURES WITH BELOW ZERO READINGS IN CACHE AND MOUNTAIN VALLEYS ALREADY. MAY NEED TO LOWER SOME MINS FOR OVERNIGHT INCREASING SOUTHWEST FLOW ASSOCIATED WITH THE CLOSED LOW IN CALIFORNIA WILL SPREAD 700-500 MB MOISTURE ACROSS THE AREA FROM SOUTH TO NORTH AFTER MIDNIGHT. VORT LOBE PROGGED TO QUICKLY LIFT ALONG THE NEVADA BORDER ON THURSDAY AND SPREAD SNOW FROM SOUTHWEST UTAH EARLY IN THE MORNING AND NORTHWARD ACROSS NORTHERN UTAH IN THE AFTERNOON. WILL BE A QUICK SHOT OF SNOW WITH INCREASE SOUTHWEST FLOW UP TO 40 KNOTS AT 700 MB PROVIDING GOOD OROGRAPHIC ENHANCEMENT. VORT LOBE PROGGED TO BE IN SOUTHERN IDAHO BY 6 PM THURSDAY...WITH A BREAK IN SNOWFALL THURSDAY EVENING. JUST FAVORED EAST BENCH AREAS MAY GET A QUICK 3-4 INCHES IN THE COLD AIR MASS ON THURSDAY WITH 1 TO 2 MORE COMMON IN VALLEYS...AND JUST TOUCHING 6 INCHES FOR FAVORED MOUNTAINS. NEXT SHIFT CAN ADDRESS WITH POSSIBLE LOW END HEADLINE. NAM STILL BRINGS AN ADDITIONAL FLATTER VORT LOBE ACROSS UTAH AFTER MIDNIGHT...THE REMAINS OF THE CURRENT CLOSED LOW WHICH BECOMES REPLACED BY ANOTHER UPPER LOW ALONG THE COAST...INTO FRIDAY MORNING WHICH WOULD REDEVELOP SNOW ACROSS SOUTHWEST UTAH AND INTO NORTHERN UTAH. PERSISTENT MODERATE SOUTHWEST FLOW WOULD ENHANCE THIS SNOWFALL...BUT SHORT WAVE RIDGING FORECAST TO SPREAD INTO THE REGION LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON WHICH WOULD TAPER OFF MUCH OF THE SNOWFALL...THROUGH SATURDAY. MODERATE FLOW SHOULD HELP MIX OUT WESTERN AND NORTHERN VALLEYS AND LEAD TO WARMING DESPITE COLD AIR MASS OF -10 TO -12C PERSISTING. CURRENT FORECAST ON TRACK WITH SNOWFALL...DUE TO SPEED OF THE FIRST WAVE ON THURSDAY VALLEYS/BASINS AND MOUNTAINS WILL GET ACCUMULATIONS BUT COMMON AMOUNTS WILL BE LIKELY BE BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN UTAH. THE EXCEPTION IS THE SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS OF UTAH. THE SECOND DISTURBANCE PROGGED BY THE NAM WOULD BRING A FEW MORE INCHES TO NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND COUPLE INCHES FOR FAVORED VALLEYS AND BENCHES ON THE EAST SIDE. THE NEXT UPPER LOW THAT CLOSES OFF JUST OFF THE WEST COAST EVENTUALLY SHOULD TAP DEEPER MOISTURE AND BRING STRONG DYNAMICS TO UTAH BY SUNDAY...FOLLOWED BY THE MEAN UPPER TROUGH AND COLD FRONT RIGHT ON ITS HEELS INTO MONDAY. && .AVIATION...LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL REMAIN TRAPPED IN THE SLC VALLEY THROUGH MIDDAY THURSDAY. UPPER END IFR OR LOWER END MVFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH AT LEAST 16Z IN LOW CEILINGS AND OCCASIONAL LIGHT SNOW OR ICE CRYSTALS. LITTLE IF ANY ACCUMULATION EXPECTED ON AN UNTREATED RUNWAY. WINDS HAVE A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF REMAINING NORTH THROUGH 13Z. && .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...SNOW ADVISORY FOR UTZ517-518 FROM 3AM UNTIL 4PM THURSDAY. WY...NONE. && TARDY AVIATION...STRUTHWOLF 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 604 AM MST WED JAN 23 2008 UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-241100- 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- 604 AM MST WED JAN 23 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF UTAH AND FAR SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AREAS OF LOW CLOUDS AND FOG WILL PERSIST IN THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN VALLEYS OF UTAH THROUGH MID MORNING THEN GRADUALLY BURN OFF. CLOUDS WILL INCREASE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE SOUTHWEST AHEAD OF A PACIFIC STORM THEN SPREAD NORTH AND EAST OVERNIGHT. THIS STORM WILL BRING SOME SNOW TO THE MOUNTAINS AND HIGHER VALLEYS OF SOUTHWEST UTAH LATE TONIGHT WITH RAIN AT THE LOWER ELEVATIONS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SNOW ALONG WITH RAIN IN THE LOWEST SOUTHWEST VALLEYS WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY THEN TAPER OFF THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. LOCAL SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATION OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE. A STRONGER AND MORE MOIST PACIFIC STORM WILL BEGIN TO IMPACT THE OUTLOOK AREA SATURDAY NIGHT AND WILL PERSIST THROUGH SUNDAY. THIS SYSTEM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BRING HEAVY SNOWFALL TO THE MOUNTAINS AND THE HIGHER VALLEYS ALONG WITH STRONG WINDS. YET ANOTHER PACIFIC STORM COULD BRING EVEN MORE SNOW ALONG WITH COLDER TEMPERATURES NEXT MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SALTLAKECITY (ALL LOWER CASE)
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Brian Head and other locations in the mountains of southern Utah received at least 12 inches of snow in 12 hours based on SNOTEL observations.
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