High Wind, C W Box Elder/C W Xe Toole/X W Salt Lake/X Nw Utah
- When
- February 14, 4:00 PM MST to 8:00 PM MST
- Where
- C W Box Elder/C W Xe Toole/X W Salt Lake/X Nw Utah forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
High Wind in Utah, February 14, 2000
A powerful cold front brought strong winds to Northern Utah. A 38-year-old woman was killed near her home in Brigham City.
The toll
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- $10,000
- Events
- 6
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 powerful cold front brought strong winds to Northern Utah. A 38-year-old woman was killed near her home in Brigham City. As she got out of her car and walked to her house, an 80-year-old tree was blown over, crushing her car, then landing on and killing the woman near her front porch. Some of the stronger gusts were 64mph (56kts) in Wendover, 63mph (55kts) in Logan and Sandy, and 61 mph (53kts) in Vernon.
Event by event
6 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Ne Box Elder T X Ne/W Weber/Davis
- When
- February 14, 4:00 PM MST to 8:00 PM MST
- Where
- Ne Box Elder T X Ne/W Weber/Davis forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
High Wind, Rich/Cache T Nw/P E C Weber/Most of Morgan/Nw Summit/Ne Salt Lake/X Ne Box Elder
- When
- February 14, 4:00 PM MST to 8:00 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
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
High Wind, W Salt Lake T X W/E Toole T X E
- When
- February 14, 4:00 PM MST to 8:00 PM MST
- Where
- W Salt Lake T X W/E Toole T X E forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
High Wind, W Summit T Nw/Se Salt Lake/Wasatch X Sc/E Utah/P X E Juab/X Nw San Pete
- When
- February 14, 4:00 PM MST to 8:00 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
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
High Wind, W Utah T X Nw/P X E Juab
- When
- February 14, 4:00 PM MST to 8:00 PM MST
- Where
- W Utah T X Nw/P X E Juab forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Wind, W Utah T X Nw/P X E Juab | 2000-02-14 | 38 | Female | Under Tree | Direct |
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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More
Every storm in Utah in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, February 2000
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: 5178673, 5178674, 5178675, 5178676, 5178677, 5178678.