Gusty easterly canyon winds developed early in the morning along the Wasatch Front and in the Cache Valley in northern Utah.
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.
Gusty easterly canyon winds developed early in the morning along the Wasatch Front and in the Cache Valley in northern Utah.
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 20, 4:20 AM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED AVIATION SECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 420 AM MST THU NOV 20 2008 .SYNOPSIS...A WEAK AND GENERALLY DRY COLD FRONT WILL CROSS NORTHERN UTAH TONIGHT. A SECOND WEAK FRONT WILL CLIP FAR NORTHERN UTAH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY. && .DISCUSSION...THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE ACROSS THE INTERIOR WEST WILL FLATTEN AS A SERIES OF PACIFIC SHORTWAVES RACE EAST ACROSS THE NRN ROCKIES/NRN GREAT BASIN TONIGHT THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE FIRST SHORTWAVE WILL ARRIVE TONIGHT...DRIVING A WEAK COLD FRONT THROUGH NRN UTAH LATE TONIGHT/EARLY FRIDAY. SOLID LOW-LEVEL COOLING NOT VERY SUPPORT BY DYNAMIC LIFT OR MID-LEVEL COLD AIR. AS SUCH WILL PLAN ON COOLER TEMPS WITH A LOW-END THREAT FOR PRECIP OVER THE FAR NRN ZONES LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY. A SECOND SYSTEM WILL REACH THE AREA SATURDAY NIGHT. THIS FEATURE LIKE THE FIRST LOOKS POORLY ORGANIZED WITH THE BEST DYNAMICS AND MID-LEVEL COLD AIR WELL NORTH OF THE STATE. ONCE AGAIN WILL LOOK FOR A SHALLOW FRONT PUSHING THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT/EARLY SUNDAY WITH ONLY A MINIMAL THREAT FOR PRECIP. HEIGHTS BUILD SHARPLY EARLY NEXT WEEK AHEAD OF A SPLITTING TROUGH WELL OF THE WEST COAST. THE SRN PORTION THE SPLIT SHOULD CLOSE OFF WELL REMOVED FROM THE CA COAST MONDAY...AND REMAIN OFF SHORE THROUGH AT LEAST EARLY WEDNESDAY. HARD TO SEE ANY SHORTWAVE ENERGY EJECTING OUT AHEAD OF THIS CLOSED LOW HAVING MUCH AFFECT ON EVEN SW UTAH UNTIL WEDNESDAY AT THE SOONEST. INCREASING MOISTURE OUT AHEAD OF THE LOW WILL SPAWN A FEW SHOWERS OVER UTAH...BUT NOTHING ORGANIZED AS THE BEST COLD AIR/DYNAMICS REMAIN OFF TO THE WEST. BOTH THE GFS AND ECMWF ARE STRUGGLING WITH THE LOW AS IT MOVES INLAND LATE IN THE WEEK. BOTH ARE LEANING TOWARDS A SRN GREAT BASIN/DESERT SW STORM...BUT THE DETAILS ARE STILL SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT BETWEEN THE TWO MODELS. WHATEVER DOES TRANSPIRE WILL BE BEYOND THE CURRENT DAY 7 FORECAST...AND WILL AFFECT THE COMING HOLIDAY WEEKEND. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS UNDER MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AT THE SLC TERMINAL THROUGH THE DAY. WINDS SHOULD BE LIGHT AND PREVAILING SOUTHEASTERLY BEFORE SWITCHING TO THE NORTHWEST BETWEEN 20Z AND 22Z...LATER THAN USUAL. THERE IS A 30 PERCENT CHANCE THAT WINDS WILL REMAIN SOUTHEASTERLY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. && .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...NONE. WY...NONE. && PUBLIC...CONGER AVIATION...TRAPHAGAN FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SALTLAKECITY (ALL LOWER CASE)
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Damage due to gusty winds was reported one mile east of Logan, where a 15 foot boat and a trailer were both flipped over into a yard. Also, a screen door was ripped off a house, and ten inch diameter tree branches were downed.
The sensor at the Mouth of Parley's Canyon recorded a wind gust of 58 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: 142752, 142751.