Heavy Snow in Utah, April 23, 1999

Name: Heavy Snow in Utah, April 23, 1999
Start: 1999-04-23T06:00
End: 1999-04-23T23:00
Location: Utah

April 23, 1999 · NWS SLC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Rich/Cache T Nw/P E C Weber/Most of Morgan/Nw Summit/Ne Salt Lake/X Ne Box Elder

When: April 23, 6:00 AM MST to 11:00 PM MST
Where: Rich/Cache T Nw/P E C Weber/Most of Morgan/Nw Summit/Ne Salt Lake/X Ne Box Elder forecast zone
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC

The same conditions that brought damaging downslope winds to the Wasatch Front, produced an upslope snow event along the eastern slopes and at some ski resorts. Alta picked up a fluffy 20 inches, with Snowbird reporting 17 inches. Other snow amounts included 12 inches at Tony Grove, 10 inches at Monte Cristo, 7 inches in Randolph and Hatch, and 6 inches in Laketown.

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

Every storm in Utah in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history Warnings in Utah, April 1999

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: 5686832.