A strong winter storm and the associated cold front brought gusty winds to much of Utah, with the strongest winds near the Salt Lake Valley and in Castle Country.
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The episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
A strong winter storm and the associated cold front brought gusty winds to much of Utah, with the strongest winds near the Salt Lake Valley and in Castle Country.
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 9, 11:25 AM MST, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1125 AM MST MON NOV 9 2015 .SYNOPSIS...A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL SLOWLY CROSS UTAH TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY. A SECOND WEAKER SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS NORTHERN UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL RETURN FOR THE END OF THE WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...THE COLD UPPER TROF IS MOVING INLAND THIS MORNING. THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT APPEARS TO HAVE PASSED ELKO NV AND SHOULD ENTER NWRN UT MID AFTN. THE FRONT THEN SLOWS ITS EWD PROGRESSION AS THE MAIN UPPER TROF STARTS TO SPLIT APART REACHING SLC BETWEEN 01-02Z THIS EVE. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE MTNS AND WRN VALLEYS AHEAD OF THE FRONT THRU THE AFTN AND THE EXISTING WIND ADVISORY LOOKS ON TRACK. PRECIP SHOULD FILL IN ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND NRN WASATCH FRONT THROUGH ABOUT MIDNIGHT THEN IT IS FORECAST TO DISSIPATE AS THE SRN CENTER BECOMES DOMINANT. THIS LIGHTS UP PRECIP ALONG THE STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS SWRN-NERN UT BY MIDDAY TUE THAT SHIFTS SLOWLY EWD THRU THE AFTN. SNOW LEVELS COULD DIP TO THE WASATCH FRONT VALLEY FLOORS BY LATE EVE BUT LITTLE IF ANY ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED OTHER THAN ON GRASSY NON PAVEMENT SURFACES. MORE SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED WITH THE FRONTAL BAND TOMORROW ACROSS SWRN UT NEWD THRU THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE AND WILL LIKELY BE ISSUING WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES FOR THIS ANTICIPATED SNOWFALL IN BOTH VALLEYS AND MTNS. THERE REMAINS A POTENTIAL FOR A TRAILING DISTURBANCE IN THE NWLY FLOW BEHIND THE PARENT TROF WILL BRING ADDITIONAL SNOW TO THE WASATCH FRONT AND I-15 CORRIDOR SOUTH TO ABOUT FILLMORE TUE NIGHT INTO EARLY WED AND THERE IS A BETTER CHANCE THAT THIS COULD ACCUMULATE ON THE VALLEY FLOORS. THE LINGERING SNOW ENDS BY WED AFTN AS THE SYSTEM EXITS THE REGION. NO UPDATES PLANNED AT THIS TIME. && .AVIATION...THE SLC TERMINAL WILL CONTINUE TO SEE SOUTH WINDS GUSTING TO GREATER THAN 30 MPH THROUGH MUCH OF TODAY...WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF MVFR CONDITIONS IN BLOWING DUST THROUGH 00Z. A COLD FRONT WILL THEN SWITCH WINDS TO THE WEST-NORTHWEST...MOST LIKELY BETWEEN 00Z AND 02Z. MVFR OR IFR CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY IN SNOW OR A RAIN/SNOW MIX STARTING BETWEEN 03Z AND 06Z. && .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR UTZ003-005-015-016. WY...NONE. && PUBLIC...WILENSKY AVIATION...SCHOENING 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 353 PM MST MON NOV 9 2015 UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-101400- 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- 353 PM MST MON NOV 9 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT GUSTY SOUTH WINDS AHEAD OF AN ADVANCING COLD FRONT WILL DIMINISH LATE THIS EVENING. RAIN AND SNOW IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL UTAH ALONG WITH SOUTHWEST WYOMING OVERNIGHT. CONSULT WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES FOR MORE INFORMATION ON TIMING AND SNOW FORECASTS FOR YOUR AREA OF INTEREST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM HEADING INTO SOUTHERN NEVADA EARLY TUESDAY WILL GENERATE WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL UTAH TUESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. SNOW LEVELS WILL BECOME LOW ENOUGH FOR ACCUMULATING SNOW ACROSS ALL BUT THE LOWEST SOUTHERN VALLEYS NEAR THE ARIZONA BORDER. SEVERAL INCHES OF ACCUMULATION ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. SNOW SHOWERS WILL LINGER INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE SOUTH AND EAST. UP NORTH SNOW SHOWERS WILL FORM AGAIN ALONG THE WASATCH FRONT AND MOUNTAINS LATE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY. ACCUMULATING SNOWS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WASATCH RANGE...WITH MINOR ACCUMULATIONS ALONG THE WASATCH FRONT URBAN CORRIDOR. A WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCE RACING SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE NORTHERN ROCKIES WILL GRAZE FAR NORTHERN UTAH WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY. LIGHT SNOW COULD DEVELOP ACROSS EXTREME NORTHERN UTAH WITH AN INCH OR TWO OF ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE FOR THE FAR NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. .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
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The strongest winds in the Salt Lake and Tooele Valleys occurred with the cold frontal passage, with peak wind gusts of 62 mph at Vernon Hill, 60 mph at Point of the Mountain, and 58 mph at Flight Park South.
Strong downslope winds occurred in Castle Country after the cold front passed through the area. Maximum recorded wind gusts included 80 mph at the SR-72 at Hogan Pass sensor and 70 mph at Fremont Junction.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, November 2015
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: 608925, 608926.