A storm system moving just north and east of Utah brought strong winds to northern Utah, particularly along the higher terrain.
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The episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
A storm system moving just north and east of Utah brought strong winds to northern Utah, particularly along the higher terrain.
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 Nov 13, 4:50 AM MST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 450 AM MST THU NOV 13 2008 .SYNOPSIS...MOIST NORTHWEST FLOW WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA FRIDAY AND CONTINUE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...A NORTHWEST FLOW PATTERN WILL REMAIN OVER THE AREA TODAY. A SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL DIVE DOWN THE EAST SIDE OF THE ROCKIES THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO FRIDAY AS RIDGE OVER THE EASTERN PACIFIC AMPLIFIES. THIS SYSTEM IS ACCOMPANIED BY A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL JET WITH SPEEDS IN EXCESS OF 170KT WHICH DIVES INTO CENTRAL WYOMING. ALTHOUGH THE JET WILL REMAIN EAST OF UTAH...WINDS WILL STILL BE QUITE STRONG...ESPECIALLY OVER THE RIDGETOPS. MODELS HAVE 500MB WINDS OF 70KT BY THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE NORTHEASTERN PORTIONS. HAVE HELD OFF ON ANY WIND HIGHLIGHTS AT THIS TIME...BUT THERE IS A CHANCE A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY FOR THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHEAST UTAH. IN ADDITION TO THE WINDS...THE TROUGH WILL PUSH A WEAK COLD FRONT ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. LIGHT PRECIPITATION IS POSSIBLE AS THIS FRONT MOVES THROUGH...MAINLY OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS WHERE MORE MOISTURE WILL BE AVAILABLE. SNOW LEVELS WILL BE RATHER HIGH...NEAR 8500-9000FT INITIALLY...THEN LOWER TO 7500FT BY EVENING. THE HIGH SNOW LEVELS...COUPLED WITH VERY WEAK DYNAMICS...WILL RESULT IN SUB-ADVISORY ACCUMULATIONS IN THE MOUNTAINS. PRECIPITATION SHOULD TAPER OFF BY LATE TONIGHT WINDS TURN MORE NORTHERLY TOMORROW BUT WILL REMAIN RATHER STRONG. HOWEVER...COOLER AIR WILL SETTLE INTO THE AREA SO EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO BE BELOW NORMAL OVER THE NORTH. TEMPERATURES COULD PLUMMET TOMORROW NIGHT AS WINDS DECREASE AND CLOUDS MOVE OUT OF THE AREA. WITH INCREASING SUBSIDENCE AS THE RIDGE CONTINUES TO BUILD OVER THE WEST COAST...COLD AIR WILL LIKELY BE TRAPPED IN SOME OF THE LOWER VALLEYS SO TEMPERATURES MAY NOT WARM MUCH ON SATURDAY IN SOME AREAS DESPITE 700MB TEMPERATURES OF OF 3-7C THROUGHOUT THE AREA. BROAD RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN SETTLE OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. EXPECT JUST A GRADUAL WARMING DURING THIS PERIOD WITH VALLEY INVERSIONS PERSISTING. A BRUSH-BY SYSTEM COULD STIR THE AIRMASS A BIT TUESDAY BUT OTHERWISE IS NOT EXPECTED TO BRING MUCH IN THE WAY OF PRECIPITATION AT THIS TIME. && .AVIATION...CEILINGS AT THE SLC TERMINAL SHOULD BEGIN TO LOWER AGAIN THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS...AND WILL LIKELY REMAIN BELOW 7000FT AGL FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME THROUGH THE DAY TODAY. SURFACE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO SWITCH TO THE NORTHWEST BETWEEN 18Z AND 20Z...WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE THAT THE WIND SHIFT WILL BE AS LATE AS 22Z OR 23Z. && .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...NONE. WY...NONE. && PUBLIC...CHENG AVIATION...SCHOENING 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 522 AM MST THU NOV 13 2008 UTZ001>004-006>010-WYZ021-141300- CACHE VALLEY/UTAH PORTION-NORTHERN WASATCH FRONT- SALT LAKE AND TOOELE VALLEYS-SOUTHERN WASATCH FRONT- WASATCH MOUNTAIN VALLEYS-WASATCH MOUNTAINS I-80 NORTH- WASATCH MOUNTAINS SOUTH OF I-80-WESTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS- WASATCH PLATEAU/BOOK CLIFFS-SOUTHWEST WYOMING- 522 AM MST THU NOV 13 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL CROSS NORTHERN UTAH WITH LIGHT VALLEY RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW ABOVE 7500 FEET EXPECTED TODAY THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. IN ADDITION...VERY STRONG WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR RIDGETOPS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE NEAR THE RIDGETOPS THROUGH AT LEAST THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS FRIDAY BEFORE DECREASING. .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)
3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds were recorded over 25 hours at the Chepeta RAWS, with the highest gust being 93 mph.
Many strong gusts were recorded along the Central Wasatch Peaks, with the highest gust being 111 mph.
The Lakeside Mountain sensor recorded a wind gust of 60 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, November 2008
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 142749, 142748, 142750.