Heavy rain caused flash flooding in portions of Capitol Reef National Park.
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Heavy rain caused flash flooding in portions of Capitol Reef National Park.
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 16, 8:43 AM MST, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
943 AM MDT WED JUL 16 2008
.SYNOPSIS...DEEP MOISTURE WILL BE OVER THE AREA TODAY. A DRIER
AIRMASS WILL BEGIN TO SPREAD OVER THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST ON
THURSDAY...WITH THE DRYING TREND CONTINUING FRIDAY.
&&
.DISCUSSION...DEEP MOISTURE MOVED INTO NRN UT THIS MORNING A
SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS HAVE ACCOMPANIED THIS. MODELS IMPLY A WEAK
WAVE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SURGE THAT MOVES EAST OF THE FORECAST
AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND SUPPRESSES CONVECTION IN ITS WAKE OVER
THE NORTH. CONVECTION SHOULD FILL IN AGAIN LATE IN THE DAY AND
PERSIST INTO TONIGHT HOWEVER.
DOWN SOUTH...THE MOIST AIRMASS IN PLACE AND ONLY SCATTERED CLOUDS
SHOULD ALLOW CONVECTION TO BECOME WELL DEVELOPED BY MAX HEATING TIME
AND SOME STORMS SHOULD BE HEAVY RAINERS SO WATCH LOOKS GOOD. MAY
CONSIDER ADDING THE LAKE POWELL ZONE WITH THE AFTERNOON FORECAST
PACKAGE AS DEVELOPMENT THERE WILL LIKELY BE LATER.
DRYING SPREADS INTO THE NORTHERN PORTIONS AREA FROM THE WEST
TOMORROW AND EVEN INTO THE SOUTH FRIDAY...ALTHO SUSPECT THERE WILL
STILL BE A LITTLE AFTERNOON CONVECTION UP NORTH BOTH DAYS...JUST
WITH DRIER STORMS.
UPDATED FORECASTS TO INDICATE MORE CLOUD COVER OVER THE NORTH AND
NORTHEAST THIS MORNING ALONG WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS. REST OF PACKAGE
IN GOOD SHAPE AND LEFT AS IS.
&&
.AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THE MORNING AT THE
SLC TERMINAL WITH HIGH CIGS. THERE IS A 10 PERCENT CHANCE OF A LIGHT
SHOWER NEAR THE AIRFIELD CREATING GUSTY ERRATIC WIND UNTIL ABOUT
19Z. AFTER 21Z...THE CHANCE INCREASES TO 30 PERCENT FOR
THUNDERSTORMS OVER AND NEAR THE TERMINAL WHICH COULD RESULT IN
OCCASIONAL GUSTY AND ERRATIC WINDS. OTHERWISE...PREVAILING SOUTHERLY
DRAINAGE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO TRANSITION TO THE NORTHWEST LAKE
BREEZE BY AROUND 19-20Z.
&&
.SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
UT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM NOON WEDNESDAY TO 10 PM WEDNESDAY FOR
UTZ010-UTZ012-UTZ013-UTZ014-UTZ016-UTZ019-UTZ020-UTZ517-
UTZ518.
WY...NONE.
&&
WILENSKY/TRAPHAGAN
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HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SALTLAKECITY (ALL LOWER CASE)HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 458 AM MDT WED JUL 16 2008 UTZ010-012>014-016-019>021-517-518-171100- WASATCH PLATEAU/BOOK CLIFFS-CASTLE COUNTRY-SAN RAFAEL SWELL- SANPETE/SEVIER VALLEYS-SOUTHWEST UTAH- UTAHS DIXIE AND ZION NATIONAL PARK-SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH- GLEN CANYON RECREATION AREA/LAKE POWELL-CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS- 458 AM MDT WED JUL 16 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN UTAH. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A MOIST AIRMASS WILL REMAIN OVER SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL UTAH TODAY AND TONIGHT. THIS WILL LEAD TO SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS... HEAVIEST IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE RISK OF FLASH FLOODING IS ELEVATED THROUGH THIS EVENING...PARTICULARLY IN NORMALLY FLASH FLOOD PRONE TERRAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY MOISTURE WITHIN THE AIRMASS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN UTAH WILL SLOWLY DECREASE THROUGH THE WEEKEND...REDUCING THE CHANCE OF HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. UTZ001>009-011-015-WYZ021-171100- 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-WESTERN UINTA BASIN-WEST CENTRAL UTAH- SOUTHWEST WYOMING- 458 AM MDT WED JUL 16 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL UTAH... NORTHERN UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ARE EXPECTED OVER NORTHERN UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING TODAY AND THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY DRIER AIR WILL RETURN FOR LATE IN THE WEEK WITH THUNDERSTORMS RESTRICTED MAINLY TO HIGHER TERRAIN. .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)
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 154 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:06 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash flooding occurred in the Capitol Gorge and Grand Wash areas of Capitol Reef National Park. This flooding closed these two areas, as well as the Scenic Drive in the park.
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