Heavy Snow, Cache Valley/Utah Portion
- When
- December 3, 4:00 PM MST to December 4, 1:00 AM MST
- Where
- Cache Valley/Utah Portion forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Utah, December 3 to 4, 1996
An upper-level trough moved across the northern Great Basin developing snow across extreme northern Utah. Though the northern mountains did not receive warning criteria snowfall, most northern valleys did.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 25
- Property damage
- $200
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
An upper-level trough moved across the northern Great Basin developing snow across extreme northern Utah. Though the northern mountains did not receive warning criteria snowfall, most northern valleys did. Generally 4-8 inches of snow was reported with this system. The greatest amount was 8" just north of Logan in the Cache valley. There were 100 known traffic accidents responsible for 25 injuries.
Event by event
4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Northern Wasatch Front/Brigham City/Ogden Bountiful
- When
- December 3, 4:00 PM MST to December 4, 1:00 AM MST
- Where
- Northern Wasatch Front/Brigham City/Ogden Bountiful forecast zone
Heavy Snow, Salt Lake and Toole Valleys
- When
- December 3, 4:00 PM MST to December 4, 1:00 AM MST
- Where
- Salt Lake and Toole Valleys forecast zone
- Injuries
- 25 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $200
Heavy Snow, Wasatch Mountain Valleys/Huntsville/Park City/Heber
- When
- December 3, 4:00 PM MST to December 4, 1:00 AM MST
- Where
- Wasatch Mountain Valleys/Huntsville/Park City/Heber forecast zone
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
Every storm in Utah in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, December 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5582940, 5582941, 5582942, 5582943.