A lightning strike caused an injury in Richfield.
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A lightning strike caused an injury in Richfield.
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 6, 12:15 PM MST, 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 115 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 .SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVING THROUGH THE NORTHERN ROCKIES WILL PUSH A WEAK COLD FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN UTAH TODAY. A WARM WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL FOLLOW FOR THE EARLY AND MIDDLE PORTION OF THE COMING WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT BUILDS OVER NEVADA. && .DISCUSSION (UPDATED)...SCATTERED CONVECTION HAS FORMED FURTHER SOUTHWEST THAN EXPECTED ACROSS SW UTAH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. WEAK SHEAR AT THIS TIME PRODUCING SHORT-DURATION STORMS WITH SMALL HAIL. THE LATEST NAM DOES SHOW A MODEST INCREASE IN SHEAR LATER TODAY...SO SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PERSIST AND COULD PRODUCE A BIT LARGER HAIL. HAVE ISSUED AN UPDATE TO THE PREVIOUS ZONE FORECASTS. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING EAST ACROSS THE NRN ROCKIES/NORTHERN GREAT BASIN WILL ENTER NW UTAH BY THIS AFTERNOON. A THIN LINE OF SHOWERS/ISOLATED STORMS FORMED OVERNIGHT AHEAD OF THE TROUGH ALONG A WEAK LOW-LEVEL CONVERGENCE/UPPER-LEVEL DIVERGENCE COUPLET. THE LOW-LEVEL CONVERGENCE BOUNDARY WILL SLIP INTO CNTRL UTAH LATER TODAY. THIS BOUNDARY COULD BECOME THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL CONVECTION AS IT RUNS INTO THE RESIDUAL MOISTURE FROM YESTERDAY. BEHIND THE BOUNDARY THE COOLER AND MORE STABLE LOW-LEVELS SHOULD BRING AN END TO MOST CONVECTION ACROSS NW UTAH DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON. BUILDING HEIGHTS ACROSS THE ERN PACIFIC EARLY THIS COMING WEEK WILL LEAVE THE GREAT BASIN UNDER A WEAK W-NW FLOW THROUGH MIDWEEK. A GENERALLY STABLE AIRMASS WILL EXIST ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA...THOUGH ENOUGH MOISTURE MAY STILL LINGER FOR A FEW SHOWERS/STORMS OVER THE SRN/ERN MOUNTAINS EACH DAY. BOTH THE ECMWF AND GFS DRIVE A RATHER SUBSTANTIAL TROUGH SE INTO THE NRN ROCKIES FROM WRN CANADA LATE IN THE WEEK. THE GFS TAKES MOST OF THE TROUGH ENERGY INTO THE NRN PLAINS BY SATURDAY...WHILE THE ECMWF LEAVE A CLOSED LOW BACK OVER THE PACIFIC NW/NRN ROCKIES FOR NEXT WEEKEND. EVEN THOUGH THE ECMWF HAS TO SOME DEGREE CARRIED THIS SOLUTION FOR AWHILE...THE GFS PROGRESSIVE SOLUTION LOOKS BETTER FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. CURRENT LOW POPS IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD LOOK GOOD FOR NOW. && .AVIATION....WINDS AT KSLC ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN SOUTHEAST UNTIL AROUND 17-18Z WHEN THEY WILL TURN TO THE NORTHWEST WITH THE PASSAGE OF A WEAK COLD FRONT. THERE IS A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF WINDS SHIFTING AS EARLY AS 16-17Z. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE SALT LAKE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND THERE IS A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF GUSTY ERRATIC WINDS FROM THUNDERSTORMS IMPACTING THE AIRFIELD BETWEEN 19Z-02Z. THERE IS ONLY ABOUT A 10 PERCENT CHANCE OF A THUNDERSTORM ACTUALLY OCCURRING WITHIN 5 MILES OF THE TERMINAL. && .FIRE WEATHER...A WEAK STORM SYSTEM WILL IMPACT UTAH TODAY. THIS SYSTEM WILL PUSH A COLD FRONT INTO CENTRAL UTAH BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL BRING SOMEWHAT COOLER TEMPERATURES TO THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE STATE. WINDS AROUND THE AREA ARE EXPECTED TO BE LIGHTER TODAY AND CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE STATE WITH SCATTERED MOUNTAIN THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH PORTIONS. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING A MORE STABLE REGIME BACK INTO UTAH MONDAY WITH TEMPERATURES SLOWLY CLIMBING ACROSS THE NORTH THROUGH MID WEEK AND AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ONCE AGAIN DROPPING. && .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...NONE. WY...NONE. && CONGER/WILENSKY 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 335 AM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-071100- 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- 335 AM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVING INTO NORTHERN UTAH THIS AFTERNOON WILL BRING A SMALL CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. ELSEWHERE...RESIDUAL MOISTURE ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF UTAH WILL ALLOW FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL STRENGTHEN THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE WEEK...RESULTING IN DRY WEATHER. MOISTURE MAY RETURN TO THE AREA LATE FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...BRINGING A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. .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), 148 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:09 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A woman was injured at the Cove View Golf Course in Richfield when lightning hit a nearby tree and traveled to her. The woman was conscious and breathing when she was taken to a nearby hospital.
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