Meteor causes loud boom heard across northern Utah, National Weather Service says
Aug 13, 2022, 10:25 AM | Updated: 6:34 pm
The National Weather Service used lighting monitoring date to bolster a theory that a meteor caused Saturday morning's loud boom. (National Weather Service)
(National Weather Service)
SALT LAKE CITY — It took a while to be sure but experts said a meteor caused the loud boom that echoed across northern Utah Saturday morning.
The National Weather Service confirmed the meteor as the source around 10:00 am.
University of Utah Seismograph Stations tweeted “We’ve received many reports of people feeling or hearing a “boom” ~8:32 am. We can confirm that it was not an earthquake.”
We've received many reports of people feeling or hearing a "boom" ~8:32 am. We can confirm that it was not an earthquake.
— UUSS (@UUSSquake) August 13, 2022
About an hour later the National Weather Service started to zero in on the meteor theory by analyzing lighting sensing data.
Bolstering the meteor theory for this morning's #boom in #Utah, the two reddish pixels shown over Davis and Morgan counties are from the GOES-17 Lightning Mapper, but not associated with evidence of thunderstorm activity in satellite or radar. Likely the meteor trail/flash #utwx pic.twitter.com/qRO2Rsfca7
— NWS Salt Lake City (@NWSSaltLakeCity) August 13, 2022
People also caught a flash and some just the sound from the meteor on their doorbell cameras.
In addition to satellite lightning detection picking up on the flash/tail, we've now got video confirmation of the meteor heard across northern Utah, southern Idaho and elsewhere this morning. #utwx #idwx #wywx https://t.co/tG9NZHWWZo
— NWS Salt Lake City (@NWSSaltLakeCity) August 13, 2022
Governor Spencer Cox also tweeted that he heard it while he was out on his morning jog. “Heard this while out on a run in SLC. We have confirmed it was not seismic/earthquake and not related to our military installations.”
Heard this while out on a run in SLC. We have confirmed it was not seismic/earthquake and not related to our military instillations. This is likely the best theory. https://t.co/mEGfjtveNE
— Spencer Cox (@SpencerJCox) August 13, 2022
Bolstering the meteor theory for this morning's #boom in #Utah, the two reddish pixels shown over Davis and Morgan counties are from the GOES-17 Lightning Mapper, but not associated with evidence of thunderstorm activity in satellite or radar. Likely the meteor trail/flash #utwx pic.twitter.com/qRO2Rsfca7
— NWS Salt Lake City (@NWSSaltLakeCity) August 13, 2022
