A storm began impacting Utah on March 25, bringing increasing winds, followed by showers on March 26. Most of these winds, rain showers, and snow showers did not have any significant impacts, but two isolated events in southern Utah reached severe levels.
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The episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
A storm began impacting Utah on March 25, bringing increasing winds, followed by showers on March 26. Most of these winds, rain showers, and snow showers did not have any significant impacts, but two isolated events in southern Utah reached severe levels.
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 Mar 25, 2:42 PM MST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 342 PM MDT TUE MAR 25 2014 .SYNOPSIS...THE FIRST PART OF A MULTI-PART STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE GREAT BASIN LATE TONIGHT. THE REMAINDER OF THE STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THURSDAY AND INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. A RIDGE WILL BUILD OVER THE AREA FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY AHEAD OF ANOTHER STORM SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. && .DISCUSSION...SHORT TERM (THROUGH FRIDAY). GOOD MODEL AGREEMENT TODAY. BIG EAST PACIFIC TROUGH WILL SLOWLY TRUNDLE INLAND OVER THE NEXT TWO DAYS. FIRST PART OF THE STORM IS A SURFACE COLD FRONT THAT CROSSED THE CA/NV BORDER AROUND 20Z. UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT WITH THIS COLD FRONT IS MEAGER AS THE FRONT ARRIVES IN NORTHWEST UTAH AROUND 10 TO 12Z WEDNESDAY MORNING. EXPECT SOME PRECIP WITH THE FRONT AND FOR A FEW HOURS POST FRONTAL...THEN CONDITIONS BECOME SHOWERY WITH A ENOUGH INSTABILITY TO SUPPORT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THIS FRONT GETS A LITTLE BIT OF A BOOST IN UPPER SUPPORT AS IT MOVES THROUGH SOUTH/CENTRAL UTAH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HEAVIEST PRECIP IS LIKELY IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTH/CENTRAL UTAH. WITH RELATIVELY HIGH SNOW LEVELS AND SHORT DURATION PRECIP...DO NOT BELIEVE SNOW ADVISORY IMPACTS WILL OCCUR OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS WEDNESDAY. ADVISORY MIGHT BE NEEDED IN SOUTH/CENTRAL MOUNTAINS...BUT NOT UNTIL WED. AFTERNOON. PLENTY OF PRE-FRONTAL WIND OVER SOUTHERN UTAH WEDNESDAY MORNING...BUT WINDS WEAKEN QUICKLY BEHIND THE FRONT...AND MUCH OF UTAH COULD SEE LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS WEDNESDAY AFTER THE FRONT PASSES. A SERIES OF SUBTLE UPPER TROUGHS COME INLAND ALONG WITH THE PARENT UPPER TROUGH AND COLD POOL ALOFT ON THURSDAY...SIGNIFICANT COLD AIR ADVECTION ALOFT AND GOOD INSTABILITY SHOULD GENERATE OROGRAPHIC SNOW OVER THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS THURSDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING. SNOW LEVELS LOWER TO NEAR VALLEY FLOORS ACROSS THE NORTH BUT DO NOT EXPECT MUCH IMPACT FROM ACCUMULATING SNOW AT LOW LEVELS AT THIS TIME...MIGHT NEED A SNOW ADVISORY IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS THURSDAY. RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE AREA FRIDAY FOR WARMING AND DRYING. .LONG TERM (AFTER 00Z SATURDAY)...SHORTWAVE RIDGING CONTINUES TO BUILD OVER THE GREAT BASIN FRIDAY NIGHT THEN SHIFTS EAST OF THE CWA ON SAT AS A WARM AND INCREASING SOUTHWEST FLOW DEVELOPS AHEAD OF THE NEXT PACIFIC TROUGH. MODELS REMAIN IN FAIR AGREEMENT ON THIS TROF BUT THE GFS HAS GONE TO A MUCH FASTER SOLUTION WITH THE COLD FRONT ALREADY INTO THE FAR NWRN CWA BY 00Z SUN WHILE THE EC IS ABOUT 6 HOURS SLOWER. BOTH BRING FAIRLY WIDESPREAD PRECIP TO ABOUT THE NRN 1/2 OF THE CWA AND ARE FAIRLY COLD WITH H7 TEMPS DOWN TO AROUND -8C BY 18Z SUN. THIS SHOULD SEND SNOW LEVELS TO THE NRN VALLEY FLOORS BUT DONT EXPECT MUCH IMPACT ON TRAVEL AS ACCUMULATION SHOULD BE MAINLY OFF PAVEMENT SURFACES. PRECIP SHOULD TAPER OFF IN THE AFTN. THIS IS A RELATIVELY LOW AMPLITUDE WAVE AND THESE ARE THE FIRST MODEL RUNS INDICATING THIS STRONG OF A SYSTEM SO HAVE ONLY TRENDED POP AND WX GRIDS TOWARDS THIS WETTER COLDER SOLUTION AS CONFIDENCE REMAINS ON THE LOW SIDE WITH THIS SYSTEM. SHORT WAVE RIDGING QUICKLY RETURNS TO THE CWA SUNDAY NIGHT WITH A WARM SOUTHWEST FLOW AGAIN FOR MON AND MON NIGHT BRINGING BACK WARM TEMPS. MODELS STILL HAVE A DEEP COLD TROF FOR THE WESTERN US IN THE TUE/WED TIME FRAME ALTHO CONFIDENCE IN DETAILS AND TIMING REMAIN LOW. && .AVIATION...GUSTY SOUTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AT THE SLC TERMINAL THE REST OF TODAY THROUGH MOST OF THE NIGHT UNTIL THE COLD FRONT ARRIVES AND IT NO LONGER LOOKS LIKE WE WILL SEE A SHIFT TO NORTHWEST TODAY. VFR CONDITIONS WITH MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES WILL PERSIST THROUGH 06Z TONIGHT...WITH INCREASING CLOUD COVER AFTER 06Z. THE COLD FRONT SHOULD CROSS THE AIRFIELD AROUND 10Z SHIFTING WINDS TO NORTHWEST. CIGS WILL FALL BELOW 6000 FT BY 15Z WITH RAIN SHOWERS IN THE VICINITY. .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...NONE. WY...NONE. && PUBLIC...DUNN AVIATION...HOSENFELD/WILENSKY 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 129 PM MDT TUE MAR 25 2014 UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-261300- 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- 129 PM MDT TUE MAR 25 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT GUSTY SOUTH WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. VALLEY RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW WILL DEVELOP AFTER MIDNIGHT ACROSS THE FAR NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. SOUTHWESTERLY RIDGETOP WINDS WILL RAMP UP ACROSS MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY BRINGING VALLEY RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW TO MUCH OF THE AREA. THE PARENT STORM SYSTEM WILL CROSS THE REGION LATE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY MAINTAINING MOUNTAIN SNOWFALL...AND LOWERING THE SNOW LEVELS TO THE VALLEY FLOORS ACROSS THE NORTH DURING THE DAY THURSDAY. SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL WILL SPREAD INTO THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS THURSDAY. LITTLE IF ANY VALLEY ACCUMULATION IS ANTICIPATED. GUSTY AND LOCALLY STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN OUTLOOK AREA ON WEDNESDAY. ANOTHER COLD FRONT COULD BRING GUSTY SOUTH WINDS TO THE OUTLOOK AREA SATURDAY AND ACCUMULATING SNOW TO THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY. .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) FOR INFORMATION ON POTENTIAL ROAD TRAVEL IMPACTS VISIT... HTTP://WWW.UDOTTRAFFIC.UTAH.GOV/ROADWEATHERFORECAST.ASPX
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 70 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:06 UTC.
1 dust devil, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A trampoline was blown out of a backyard and into some power lines in Minersville. Recorded wind gusts in the area at the time were relatively light, so it is likely that this was caused by a strong dust devil. Time listed is approximate.
The St. George AWOS recorded a wind gust of 68 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, March 2014
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: 509072, 509048.