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High Wind in Salt Lake and Tooele Valleys, Utah

High Wind September 8, 2019 · Salt Lake and Tooele Valleys, Utah

66 mph
Measured gust (57 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

The Vernon Hill sensor measured winds gusts of 63 mph and 66 mph during the morning.

The wider storm

A storm system moving through northern Utah produced a few high wind gusts from downslope flow over terrain during the morning of September 8. By the afternoon, scattered thunderstorms developed, most of which remained below severe levels. However, one storm produced a microburst in Big Cottonwood Canyon that was sensed by 3 weather stations.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 858826. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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