Heavy Snow, Wasatch Plateau/Book Cliffs
- When
- February 19, 8:00 PM MST to February 20, 9:00 AM MST
- Where
- Wasatch Plateau/Book Cliffs forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Utah, February 19 to 20, 1996
After an uneventful early February, a moist southwest flow set-up over Utah. while most other mountain locations received 4-6 inches.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
After an uneventful early February, a moist southwest flow set-up over Utah. Favored locations in the Northern Mountains received over a foot of snow in 12 hours...while most other mountain locations received 4-6 inches. Both the Alta and Snowbird Ski Resorts measured 14" of snow...tops for this event.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
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
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- Damaging Wind in Alabama, February 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, February 19, 1996
More
Every storm in Utah in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, February 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5535985.