A freight train derailed in rural Iron County Thursday night because of high floodwaters covering the tracks.
Strong, slow moving storms over Iron and Beaver counties yesterday produced impressive rainfall amounts over a 4-hour period leading to flash flooding northeast of Lund.
Radar estimates rainfall rates well in excess of 2" per hour at times over the 4-hour period. #utwxpic.twitter.com/mtcPYjtkPx— NWS Salt Lake City (@NWSSaltLakeCity) July 16, 2021
Southern Utah has been hit by monsoonal rains and flash floods forcing closures and causing damage.
Thursday night, thunderstorms hit southwest Utah and flooding caused a train derailment in rural Iron County, less than 40 miles northwest of Cedar City.