Utah, 2000

Heavy Snow in Utah, December 24 to 25, 2000

December 24 to 25, 2000 · NWS SLC · 4 events in 4 counties and zones

A white Christmas was assured over much of Northern Utah, as Mother Nature brought a nice dose of snow on Christmas Eve. Most of the snow was over early Christmas Morning.

The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
4

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 white Christmas was assured over much of Northern Utah, as Mother Nature brought a nice dose of snow on Christmas Eve. Most of the snow was over early Christmas Morning. Some of the higher amounts included 11 inches at Snowbird, 10 inches at Alta, 8 inches at Solitude and in North Salt Lake, 6 inches in Centerville and 4 inches in East Layton.

Event by event

4 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
December 24, 12:00 PM MST to December 25, 8:00 AM 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

Heavy Snow, W Summit T Nw/Se Salt Lake/Wasatch X Sc/E Utah/P X E Juab/X Nw San Pete

When
December 24, 12:00 PM MST to December 25, 8:00 AM MST
Where
W Summit T Nw/Se Salt Lake/Wasatch X Sc/E Utah/P X E Juab/X Nw San Pete forecast zone
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC

Heavy Snow, Ne Box Elder T X Ne/W Weber/Davis

When
December 24, 12:00 PM MST to December 25, 8:00 AM MST
Where
Ne Box Elder T X Ne/W Weber/Davis forecast zone
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC

Heavy Snow, P Nc Weber/P C Morgan/P W C Summit/P Sc Wasatch

When
December 24, 12:00 PM MST to December 25, 8:00 AM MST
Where
P Nc Weber/P C Morgan/P W C Summit/P Sc Wasatch forecast zone
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC

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

More

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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: 5177826, 5177827, 5178435, 5178436.