A Pacific storm system brought strong, gusty winds to far southwest Wyoming on October 31.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
A Pacific storm system brought strong, gusty winds to far southwest Wyoming on October 31.
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 Oct 30, 3:08 PM MST, 9 hours 22 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 345 PM MDT SUN OCT 30 2016 UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-311300- 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- 345 PM MDT SUN OCT 30 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS ACROSS THE WESTERN VALLEYS. STRONG CROSS WINDS WILL IMPACT TRAVEL ON EAST WEST ROUTES AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING DUST ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. WINDS WILL DIMINISH TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS ARE FORECAST FOR MAINLY THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TODAY WITH PRECIPITATION BECOMING MORE WIDESPREAD TONIGHT. THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR ACCUMULATING SNOW IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS ABOVE ABOUT 7000 TO 8000 FEET TONIGHT BUT AMOUNTS SHOULD REMAIN GENERALLY UNDER 4 INCHES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ANOTHER ROUND OF PRECIPITATION IS FORECAST FOR MAINLY THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE OUTLOOK AREA ON TUESDAY. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING A POTENTIAL FOR A FEW INCHES OF ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS ABOVE ABOUT 6500 FEET. .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 FOR INFORMATION ON POTENTIAL ROAD TRAVEL IMPACTS VISIT... HTTP://WWW.UDOTTRAFFIC.UTAH.GOV/ROADWEATHERFORECAST.ASPX
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Peak recorded wind gusts in Uinta County, Wyoming included 68 mph at the Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS and 63 mph at Muddy Creek.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Wyoming in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, October 2016
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: 662403.