A trough moved through the region in the first week of May. The associated cold front was a strong one, bringing gusty winds to parts of northern Utah.
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The episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
A trough moved through the region in the first week of May. The associated cold front was a strong one, bringing gusty winds to parts of 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 May 3, 7:23 PM MST, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 823 PM MDT MON MAY 3 2010 .SYNOPSIS...A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTH INTO NORTHERN UTAH LATE TONIGHT BEFORE STALLING ACROSS CENTRAL UTAH DURING THE DAY TUESDAY. ANOTHER FRONT IS EXPECTED TO SURGE THROUGH THE REGION LATE WEDNESDAY INTO EARLY THURSDAY. && .DISCUSSION...VIGOROUS SHORTWAVE TROUGH SURGING THROUGH THE NORTHERN ROCKIES THIS EVENING...WITH ATTENDANT COLD FRONT DRAPED BACK ACROSS SOUTHERN ID AND NORTHEAST NV. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS FRONT HAVE REMAINED PREDOMINANTLY NORTH OF THE ID BORDER THIS EVENING...AND SHOULD REMAIN JUST NORTH OF THE BORDER THROUGH MIDNIGHT. AFOREMENTIONED FRONT IS FORECAST TO PUSH THROUGH NORTHERN UT LATE TONIGHT BEFORE STALLING ACROSS CENTRAL UT DURING THE DAY TUESDAY. BEST FORCING AND INSTABILITY IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN NORTH AND EAST OF THE AREA...HOWEVER WILL LIKELY SEE AT LEAST A FEW SHOWERS ALONG AND BEHIND THIS BOUNDARY LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY TUESDAY...PRIMARILY NORTH OF I-80. IN THE WAKE OF THIS FRONT...DESPITE UNFAVORABLE OVERNIGHT TIMING OF FRONT ANTICIPATE GUSTY WINDS ACROSS PORTIONS OF ZONE 5 WHICH TYPICALLY DO WELL WITH NW ORIENTED GRADIENTS SUCH AS WENDOVER AND EASTWARD ALONG I-80. ADDITIONALLY...50KT 700MB WINDS SHOULD ALLOW FOR STRONG GUSTS ACROSS ZONE 7 AS WELL...AND WILL LEAVE WIND ADVISORY AS IS FOR NOW. GOING FORECAST LOOKS IN REASONABLE SHAPE AND NO UPDATES PLANNED AT THIS TIME. && .AVIATION...SOUTH WINDS TO CONTINUE AT KSLC THROUGH REMAINDER OF THE EVENING WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS EXCEEDING 25 KTS. COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO REACH THE TERMINAL BETWEEN 08-10Z WITH A RAPID SWITCH TO NW WINDS AND CIGS LOWERING TO SUB 6000FT AGL LEVELS. CIGS HAVE A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF BRIEFLY LOWERING TO MVFR BETWEEN 10 AND 13Z. && .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 10 AM MDT TUESDAY FOR UTZ005-007. WY...NONE. && SEAMAN FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SALTLAKECITY (ALL LOWER CASE) FOR FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SALTLAKECITY/GENERAL/AFD_FAQS.PHP (ALL LOWER CASE)
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 246 AM MDT MON MAY 3 2010 UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-041200- 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- 246 AM MDT MON MAY 3 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST EARLY THIS MORNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND EAST CENTRAL UTAH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. ROGOWSKI 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.
Measured wind gusts across the west desert included 64 mph at Rosebud RAWS, 59 mph at the SR-30 at Curlew Junction sensor, and 58 mph at the Camel Back Mountain sensor in the Dugway Proving Ground mesonet.
As the northwest pressure gradient tightened behind the cold front on the 5th, winds become gusty again in the southern Wasatch Front, with the sensor in Lehi recording a gust to 58 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, May 2010
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: 232327, 232329.