A spring storm brought strong winds across southwest Wyoming.
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The episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
A spring storm brought strong winds across southwest Wyoming.
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 Apr 26, 3:15 AM MST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT 415 AM MDT Fri Apr 26 2019 .SYNOPSIS... A weather disturbance will push a cold front through the area today, bringing showers and thunderstorms, a few of which could become severe with large hail and damaging winds. Saturday will see dry weather as short term high pressure builds in, followed by scattered shower and thunderstorms Sunday as a weak frontal boundary moves across the region. Unsettled weather will then continue through the middle of next week. && .SHORT TERM (Through 00Z Tuesday)... A potent shortwave can been seen in WV imagery moving into the Pacific Northwest this morning. This wave will track through the northern Rockies this afternoon and evening, while forcing a baroclinic zone stalled across northern Utah southward into southern Utah by Saturday morning. The result will be fairly numerous to widespread showers and scattered thunderstorms across northern and central Utah. BUFKIT profiles across northern Utah, in close proximity to the passing wave, show ample kinematics for strong organized convection. Deep layer shear in fairly unidirectional westerly flow around 40 knots along and ahead of the frontal passage, with the potential for locally increased directional shear where terrain helps back surface winds to a more southerly direction. While CAPE values aren't overly impressive, 500-1000J/kg, mid-level lapse rates are steep, and the convection across northern Utah is fairly well forced by the frontal passage. Thus the convective mode across northern Utah will support a few organized discrete cells and bowing segments, supportive of large hail and damaging winds. A little farther south across central Utah, showers and thunderstorms will develop in an area of drier boundary layer air, supportive of higher based storms and stronger downdrafts. Forward speed of storms will be around 25 knots which will also help contribute to the wind threat. Showers and thunderstorms will diminish Friday evening across central Utah as the wave departs and diurnal heating is lost. Surface high pressure will help build a slightly cooler airmass in across northern Utah, while the airmass changes little across southern Utah, with the boundary washing out in place across southern Utah. This will bring a dry day Saturday, with temperatures closer to average in northern Utah, while southern Utah remains about 10 degrees above average. Shower and thunderstorm chances return Sunday as the baroclinic zone tightens ahead of a stronger trough carving through the Northern Rockies. On Monday, a cut-off Pacific low will meander inland across the dessert southwest, while getting picked up by the northern stream jet over northern Utah. The increase in sub-tropical moisture and forcing from the filling low will support showers and thunderstorms developing over southern and central Utah on Monday, while helping to moisten the environment ahead of the mid-week storm system. .LONG TERM (After 00Z Tuesday)... Significant improvement in regards to the consistency in pattern evolution noted in ensemble means vs. the deterministic global output within the last few runs. Confidence remains high in regards to a rather sharp late spring season trough impacting the area during the Tue-Wed timeframe, and is now backed up in all forms. Details will be fine tuned with time, but the big picture evolution is soundly confident. Driven by an anomalous high over AK, downstream amplification of a short wave descending south from BC will sharpen over the northern Great Basin (and locally) Tuesday, this surging a strong cold front through the area later in the day. With ample moisture already in place, remnant from the previous filling low exiting downstream at that time and advected in from the SW in advance, deep layer forcing coincident with this baroclinic system is expected to produce widespread and locally heavy precip thereafter into Wednesday (focused with and just behind fropa). Maintaining likely+ PoPs this package, likely only to be upped moving forward. Strong CAA in wake of the front will drop temps to nearly 15 degrees below climo yielding a more than subtle reminder of springtime swing potential sensibly as well. After the system progresses east of the forecast area, broad troughing across the western CONUS is expected to prevail late next week and into next weekend. Nothing notable as of yet, sensibly, but some convection does look possible over the north as temps rebound to near climatological norms. && .AVIATION... An initial round of showers/storms in the vicinity of the KSLC terminal is expected to develop by 15/16z, with a greater threat of thunderstorm development again during a window in the afternoon (21-01z). Erratic outflow winds will be the primary operational impact with this storm development, but in large still anticipate a NW wind to prevail after 18-19z...modestly gusty at times. && .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...None. WY...None. && SHORT TERM...Church LONG TERM...Merrill AVIATION...Merrill For more information from NOAA's National Weather Service visit... http://weather.gov/saltlakecity For frequently asked questions about the Area Forecast Discussion visit... http://weather.gov/saltlakecity/general/afd_faqs.php
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT 532 AM MDT Fri Apr 26 2019 UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-271145- 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- 532 AM MDT Fri Apr 26 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the western two thirds of Utah and southwest Wyoming. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Showers and thunderstorms will develop today, becoming most widespread this afternoon across northern and central Utah. A few storms may become severe, with large hail and damaging winds the main threats. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday Warming temperatures will accelerate snowmelt at the mid and high elevations. This will lead to streams and rivers running high, fast and cold across the outlook area through the remainder of the Spring. Monitor children and pets closely near these waterways. .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.
The Evanston 1E sensor recorded a peak wind gust of 63 mph.
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