Heavy Snow, Southwest Utah/Cedar City/Milford
- When
- April 12, 1:00 AM MST to 1:00 PM MST
- Where
- Southwest Utah/Cedar City/Milford forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
Heavy Snow in Utah, April 12, 1997
A disturbance moved through southern Utah dumping heavy snow in a few locations. Brian Head received 11" and Cedar City 8".
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
A disturbance moved through southern Utah dumping heavy snow in a few locations. Brian Head received 11" and Cedar City 8". A few traffic accidents occurred due to the snowfall.
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Central and Southwest Mountains
- When
- April 12, 1:00 AM MST to 1:00 PM MST
- Where
- Central and Southwest Mountains 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
- Frost and Freeze in Colorado, April 12, 1997
- Cold in Texas, April 12 to 13, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Utah, April 12, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, April 12, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, April 12, 1997
- Waterspout in Florida, April 12, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, April 12, 1997
- Hail in Michigan, April 12, 1997
- Waterspout in Florida, April 12, 1997
- Waterspout in Florida, April 12, 1997
- Hail in Tennessee, April 12, 1997
- Hail in Tennessee, April 12, 1997
More
Every storm in Utah in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, April 1997
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: 5602786, 5602787.