The National Weather Service Salt Lake City issued an area forecast discussion indicating that scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms would continue through the night and into Saturday morning. Coverage for these storms was expected to increase during the Saturday afternoon and evening hours.
According to the notice, the potential for strong to severe thunderstorms over northern portions of the area was expected to increase on Saturday afternoon. The primary threats identified were strong winds and hail. Additionally, the threat of flash flooding was expected to be elevated across the area on Saturday, with a marginal risk of excessive rainfall for the entire forecast area.
The weather pattern was expected to remain active through at least the first half of the following week. While northwest Utah was expected to see a decrease in convection by Sunday afternoon, scattered convection was expected to continue across the south and east, maintaining the potential for locally strong storms and flash flooding.
The active, wet weather pattern was expected to result in cooler and largely below normal temperatures through at least the middle of next week. In southern and southeastern Utah, several additional weather disturbances were expected to continue ejecting across the area, maintaining an active weather pattern.