On Wednesday, many places across Weber County experienced minor flooding, high waters and a little basement flooding as the area experienced over two inches of rain — with some areas experiencing in excess of three inches — in the course of a day.

Weber County Emergency Manager Lisa Gosline told the Standard-Examiner that it was a significant storm system that moved through Wednesday.

“This was pushing a 200-year storm event with a low frequency,” she said. “Many cities were very busy. Their public works folks were out and about dealing with everything that happened in their cities.”

She said 24-hour totals at various points included 2.06″ in Plain City, 2.39″ in Farr West, 2.41″ in North Ogden (around the burn scar from the Willard Peak Fire), 2.40″ in Liberty and Eden and 3.27″ in North Ogden around 3500 North.

Ogden City Communications Director Mike McBride said some areas of Ogden experienced minor flooding.

“We had a couple of spots that had high water and, of course, receded once the storm (drainage) system caught up to the really fast, high flows they were experiencing,” he said.

He said the Five Points intersection (Second Street, Washington Boulevard, Harrisville Road) temporarily experienced high water along with some areas downtown.

“Our entire team was out, including our public services crew and our fire department, and they were actively cleaning storm grates,” he said.

McBride said no reports of damages were received as a result of the rains.

“It was a pretty unusual event where we got a lot of water in a really short amount of time,” he said. “Our storm system performed the way we expect it to.”

The Standard-Examiner also reached out to officials in Farr West and North Ogden about high water conditions but received no response by press time.

Gosline said in various locations in the county, people were getting water in basements and some roadways were overtopped with water for a time.

She said one of the biggest problem spots was along Rulon White Boulevard.

“There’s a basin there that is owned by North Ogden and it overtopped with water and then heads down into Rulon,” she said. “All of the water that was accumulating from the storm as well was causing that flooding. Initially, we sent law enforcement to discourage people and try to get them to stay out of the intersection and they wouldn’t — they were going right around them — so the roads department and emergency management took out some sign boards and made the decision … to close that intersection.”

Roads were reopened Thursday morning.

Gosline said there was also some debris cleaned off of the North Ogden Divide and the road to Powder Mountain, but no other damage was reported in the unincorporated parts of the county.