A nocturnal dry microburst caused wind damage across parts of Utah county.
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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.
A nocturnal dry microburst caused wind damage across parts of Utah county.
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 Jun 17, 7:50 PM MST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
850 PM MDT TUE JUN 17 2008
.SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL REMAIN OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE
WEEKEND BRINGING DRY WEATHER AND ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES.
&&
.DISCUSSION...A LARGE COMPLEX OF WEAK SHORTWAVES IS FLATTENING THE
RIDGE AS IT MOVES ONSHORE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST THIS EVENING.
THIS HAS RESULTED IN AN AREA OF WEAK DIVERGENCE ALOFT AND LIFT
WITH LIGHT SHOWER DEVELOPMENT OVER WESTERN UTAH. WILL ISSUE A
QUICK UPDATE TO MENTION A FEW SPRINKLES AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
THIS EVENING. MODELS STILL SHOW A 700 MB TROUGH FORMING AND MOVING
SOUTHEAST ACROSS UTAH TONIGHT WHICH RESULTS IN LIGHT NORTHWEST
FLOW OVER THE ENTIRE AREA FOR WEDNESDAY. 700 MB TEMPERATURES
DECREASE AS WELL...ABOUT 5C OVER NORTHERN UTAH BY WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON. AIRMASS WARMS AGAIN FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.
&&
.AVIATION...SOUTHEAST DRAINAGE WINDS WILL DEVELOP AT 04 OR 05Z.
THE SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL BE SLIGHTLY ENHANCED BY WEAK SHOWERS
DEVELOPING IN WEST-CENTRAL UTAH.
&&
.FIRE WEATHER...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL GET SLIGHTLY FLATTENED
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS FOR A FEW DEGREES OF
COOLING WHILE THE SOUTH WILL REMAIN HOT. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO
DECREASE SOMEWHAT ACROSS THE SOUTH...ESPECIALLY THURSDAY THROUGH
SATURDAY FOR LESS CHANCE OF SEVERE FIRE WEATHER.
VERY POOR RELATIVE HUMIDITY RECOVERY WILL OCCUR TONIGHT AND THE
NEXT SEVERAL NIGHTS AS LITTLE CHANGE IN THE AIRMASS EXPECTED.
&&
.SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
UT...RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 9 PM TUESDAY FOR UTZ016-UTZ019.
RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 9 PM WEDNESDAY FOR UTZ020-UTZ021.
WY...NONE.
&&
PUBLIC...GIBSON
FIRE WEATHER...STRUTHWOLF
AVIATION...GIBSON
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The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 130 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:59 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were knocked down around the Orem and Provo area as the result of an overnight microburst. The highest recorded wind gust was 51 mph near Vineyard.
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