High winds occurred in southwest Utah and in the Wasatch Back.
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High winds occurred in southwest Utah and in the Wasatch Back.
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 19, 10:14 PM UTC, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
414 PM MDT Tue Apr 19 2022
.SYNOPSIS...Strong winds will persist over southern Utah through
the early evening ahead of a cold front before diminishing.
Northern Utah will see generally light valley rain and mountain
snow through the evening with the passage of a grazing storm
system. High pressure will return on Wednesday before another
storm system impacts the area late in the week.
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.SHORT TERM (Through 12Z Thursday)...Surface cold front has made
its way into central Utah this afternoon as the main disorganized
storm system moves into northwest Utah. Associated precipitation
has been generally light and confined to the front edge of the
storm system, but some modest frontogenesis will allow for
slightly better coverage of valley rain/mountain snow as it makes
its way into the Wasatch Front early this evening. Still,
accumulations will be on the light side with a few inches at most
anticipated for the mountains of northern Utah. The system will
continue east out of the area tonight, and with the removal of
upper level support, most precipitation will quickly diminish
after midnight.
Ahead of the surface front over southern Utah winds have
increased, becoming strong and gusty. Have added southwest Utah to
the going Wind Advisory, as that area is seeing some of the
strongest winds gusts across the state. The front will continue
quickly south across the area, reaching southern Utah by mid-
evening. Behind the front, winds will relax noticeably so going
expiration time of 9PM for the Wind Advisory looks good.
Behind the exiting storm system, high pressure will briefly return
for Wednesday. As a result, temperatures will stay in excess of 5F
above seasonal normals as conditions dry.
.LONG TERM (After 12Z Thursday)...To start the extended we see a
baroclinic zone entering into NW UT associated with an incoming
longwave trough feature that brings an active pattern through the
weekend. The approaching baroclinic zone brings tight packing of mid-
level heights, driving strong surface winds particularly for SW
UT with near 50 knot winds at 700mb that could mix down over the
afternoon and evening on Thursday, bringing near advisory level
winds for southern Utah with wind gusts of 30-40 knots. The
strengthening upper level winds won't mix down to form stronger
gusts for northern valleys as well as it will in the south but
will carry elevated IVT with significant moisture and favorable
dynamics for widespread precipitation.
The trough deepens over the CWA Thursday into Friday and swings a
frontal boundary through, kicking off precipitation for Utah and SW
Wyoming Friday morning and lingering into Saturday before the trough
axis is through the CWA and most of the forcing is cut off. Model
ensembles have storm total QPF values of .5-.7" for the northern
valleys, falling mostly as rain but could see some trace
accumulations in the cache valley while the mountains see near 1.2"
QPF falling as snow.
As the trough axis passes we see winds switch to the NW as a ridging
pattern begins to build back in, which will be favorable for
orographic precipitation to continue as long as mid-level moisture
remains. As the riding begins to develop we see the likelihood of
some shortwave trough features to move through and bringing quick
forcing for some more valley precipitation on Sunday as 50-60% of
ensembles have a wet solution continuing.
This trough feature is also expected to deepen across the CWA
substantially and bring much cooler overnight and morning
temperatures that could be of risk to any agricultural interests.
Hard freeze risks are expected for the Sanpete and Sevier valleys
Saturday morning and will spread out from there into the Cache and
Wasatch Back on Sunday and Monday mornings as well.
Following the trough's exit we expect to ridge out over the CWA and
bring back west/northwesterly flow with warmer and quieter
conditions returning by Tuesday.
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.AVIATION...KSLC...VFR conditions are expected to persist through
the forecast period. Northwest winds will shift to southerly between
9 and 11z. Surface cold front has moved through the area.
Accompanying storm system will arrive sometime this evening allowing
for precipitation to increase. Winds will remain gusty before the
onset of precipitation resulting in continued drops in the
visibility due to dust. CIGS will drop below 7kft when precipitation
arrives and then lift back up after the precipitation ends.
REST OF UTAH AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING...Gusty winds are causing blowing
dust that will result in pockets of MVFR conditions through the
early evening. Otherwise widespread VFR conditions will continue
across the area for the forecast period. A cold front will continue
across the CWA this afternoon and evening resulting in increasing
and lowering clouds. Some mountain top obscuration is possible
across the high peaks of northern Utah this evening as showers
develop. Winds will stay out of the southwest and be strong across
southwest Utah this afternoon and evening. As the front progresses,
the winds will switch to the north, before going back to the
southwest tomorrow morning Winds tomorrow will be strongest in
southwestern Wyoming approaching 30kt gusts.
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.SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
UT...Wind Advisory until 9 PM MDT this evening for UTZ120>123-127-128-
130-131.
WY...None.
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SHORT TERM...Traphagan
LONG TERM...Selbig/Wessler
AVIATION...Cecava/Traphagan
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http://weather.gov/saltlakecity/general/afd_faqs.phpThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Peak wind gusts included 67 mph, recorded by the Milford Municipal Airport/Ben and Judy Briscoe Field ASOS, and 60 mph recorded by the Cedar City Regional Airport ASOS.
Peak wind gusts included 80 mph at US-40 Mayflower Summit, 68 mph at I-80 at Silver Creek Junction, 68 mph at US-189 at Deer Creek Dam, 64 mph at Jordanelle Reservoir, and 59 mph at I-80 at Coalville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, April 2022
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: 1023498, 1023491.