Utah, 2000

Heavy Snow in Utah, March 8 to 10, 2000

March 8 to 10, 2000 · NWS SLC · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

Another storm brought more of the "Greatest Snow on Earth" to the Northern Utah mountains, with 1-3 feet being reported. Alta had the most, with 35 inches of snow.

The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
2

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.

Another storm brought more of the "Greatest Snow on Earth" to the Northern Utah mountains, with 1-3 feet being reported. Alta had the most, with 35 inches of snow. Other big numbers included Solitude with 32 inches, Snowbird with 30 inches, Brighton with 28 inches, and Sundance with 24 inches.

Event by event

2 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
March 8, 10:00 AM MST to March 10, 2:00 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

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

When
March 8, 10:00 AM MST to March 10, 2:00 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
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: 5178189, 5178190.