Heavy Snow, W Summit T Nw/Se Salt Lake/Wasatch X Sc/E Utah/P X E Juab/X Nw San Pete
- When
- May 25, 12:00 AM MST to May 26, 1:00 PM MST
- Where
- W Summit T Nw/Se Salt Lake/Wasatch X Sc/E Utah/P X E Juab/X Nw San Pete forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
Heavy Snow in Utah, May 25 to 26, 1997
A weak storm system left criteria snow on the northern Utah mountains. The Alta ski resort measured a foot of snow with this storm.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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.
A weak storm system left criteria snow on the northern Utah mountains. The Alta ski resort measured a foot of snow with this storm.
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 25, 1997
- Tornado in Kansas, May 25, 1997
- Heavy Rain in Pennsylvania, May 25, 1997
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Texas, May 25, 1997
- Tornado in Maryland, May 25, 1997
- Tornado in Kansas, May 25, 1997
- Tornado in Kansas, May 25, 1997
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, May 25 to 26, 1997
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Virginia, May 25, 1997
- Flood in Ohio, May 25 to 26, 1997
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, May 25 to 26, 1997
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 25, 1997
More
Every storm in Utah in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, May 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: 5622795.