Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Golf-ball size hail, flooding hit parts of Salt Lake County







The Associated Press
 Updated Jun 13 2016 08:36 pm


(Todd Adams | The Salt Lake Tribune) Hail pounded parts of Centrail Utah Monday, June 13, 2016.



People in the western part of Salt Lake County saw hail as large as golf balls in an unusual June storm that also caused flooding.

National Weather Service meteorologist Monica Traphagan said Monday the largest hail fell in Kearns, though parts of West Valley City experienced quarter-sized hail.

The storm then moved east to Murry and Midvale, where it dumped heavy rain as well as some hail. Authorities were dealing with multiple reports of flooding.

Traphagan says the storm came over the Oquirrh Mountains about noon and the worst of it lasted less than 90 minutes.

Traphagan says the weather service has only recorded 14 instances of hail that was the size of a ping-pong ball or greater in Salt Lake County.
 

June is typically the driest month of the year.