A tornado was spotted and photographed by multiple observers in Beaver County, Utah.
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The episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
A tornado was spotted and photographed by multiple observers in Beaver County, 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 May 24, 9:16 AM MST, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1016 AM MDT SUN MAY 24 2009 .SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL TRACK ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL UTAH TODAY. IN THE WAKE OF THIS SYSTEM HIGH PRESSURE WILL GRADUALLY BUILD ACROSS THE REGION BUT WITH LOW LEVELS REMAINING RATHER MOIST SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF THE WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...THE COMBINATION OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND DEEP MOISTURE WILL BRING SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM TO THE NORTHERN AREAS THIS MORNING INTO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. A BROAD AREA OF 300-500MB DIV Q AND 300-500MB DIFFERENTIAL VORTICITY ADVECTION WILL AID IN LIFT ACROSS MOST OF NORTHERN UTAH THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. HAVE RAISED POPS ACCORDINGLY TO CATEGORICAL FROM ABOUT PROVO NORTHWARD FOR THIS MORNING AND LIKELY ALL NORTHERN AREAS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE PRECIPITABLE WATER AMOUNTS ARE 3 TO 4 STANDARD DEVIATIONS ABOVE NORMAL OR ABOUT 200 PERCENT OF NORMAL THIS MORNING OVER NORTHWEST UTAH. BY MONDAY THE PW WILL LOWER TO 1 TO 2 STANDARD DEVIATIONS ABOVE NORMAL ACROSS THE NORTH AND TO NEAR 1 ACROSS THE REST OF THE STATE. THE SOUTHWESTERN AREAS HAVE DRIED SOMEWHAT SINCE YESTERDAY BUT STILL PLENTY OF MOISTURE AVAILABLE FOR HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY FARTHER EAST. WITH SUNNY SKIES OVER MOST SOUTHERN SECTIONS THIS MORNING CONVECTION SHOULD BE ABLE TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY BY EARLY AFTERNOON. THE NAM AND GFS SHOW A 700-500MB THETA-E RIDGE STRETCHING FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN UTAH FROM ABOUT BOULDER MOUNTAIN EASTWARD. WITH A WESTERLY FLOW AT MID AND UPPER LEVELS AM CONCERNED THAT ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT FORM OVER THE BOULDER MOUNTAIN REGION WILL DRIFT OVER THE HANKSVILLE AND LAKE POWELL REGION. ALTHOUGH THE COVERAGE MAY BE FINE AT 30 PERCENT THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCERS. && .AVIATION...A BAND OF SHOWERS ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL AFFECT THE SLC TERMINAL THROUGH ABOUT 19 TO 20Z TODAY. VFR VISIBILITIES ARE EXPECTED TO PREVAIL BUT COULD TEMPORARILY LOWER TO IFR DURING HEAVIER RAIN SHOWERS. BEST THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFTER 21Z UNTIL 01Z. && .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...NONE. WY...NONE. && PUBLIC...STRUTHWOLF AVIATION...STRUTHWOLF 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 627 AM MDT SUN MAY 24 2009 UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-251200- 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- 627 AM MDT SUN MAY 24 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A MOIST AND SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION WILL RESULT IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A MOIST AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE OVER MUCH OF THE REGION THROUGHOUT THE UPCOMING WEEK. THIS MOISTURE WILL ALLOW FOR SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING 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), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:29 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A couple different observers saw a tornado touch down 5 miles west of Milford, and one took pictures of the tornado. The tornado was in an uninhabited area and did no damage.
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