Heavy Snow, Wasatch Mountain Valleys/Huntsville/Park City/Heber
- When
- January 21, 1:00 AM MST to 12:00 PM MST
- Where
- Wasatch Mountain Valleys/Huntsville/Park City/Heber forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Utah, January 21, 1997
An upper-level disturbance moved over northern Utah with just enough moisture for warning criteria snow to fall. The northern mountains received from 12-17 inches.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 disturbance moved over northern Utah with just enough moisture for warning criteria snow to fall. The northern mountains received from 12-17 inches. The highest mountain report of 17 inches came from Alta. In the mountain valleys, Kimball Junction measured 7 inches.
Event by event
3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Wasatch Mountains I80 North
- When
- January 21, 1:00 AM MST to 12:00 PM MST
- Where
- Wasatch Mountains I80 North forecast zone
Heavy Snow, Wasatch Mountains South of I80
- When
- January 21, 1:00 AM MST to 12:00 PM MST
- Where
- Wasatch Mountains South of I80 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
- Blizzard in North Dakota, January 21 to 22, 1997
- Debris Flow in Puerto Rico, January 21, 1997
- Winter Weather in New York, January 21 to 22, 1997
- High Wind in Colorado, January 21, 1997
- Blizzard in North Dakota, January 21 to 22, 1997
- Blizzard in Minnesota, January 21 to 22, 1997
- Winter Weather in Wisconsin, January 21 to 22, 1997
- Winter Storm in Montana, January 21, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, January 21, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Montana, January 21, 1997
- Flooding in Illinois, January 21 to 31, 1997
- High Wind in Hawaii, January 21, 1997
More
Every storm in Utah in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, January 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: 5599761, 5599762, 5599763.