1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 27, 9:30 PM MST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
930 PM MST TUE FEB 27 2001
SYNOPSIS...MOISTURE OVER SOUTHERN UTAH WILL SPREAD ACROSS MOST OF
THE NORTH TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY. SLOW DRYING FROM THE WEST
WILL BEGIN THURSDAY.
DISCUSSION...CLOSED UPPER LOW WHICH HAS BEEN SPINNING OFF THE CAL
COAST FOR DAYS HAS BEGUN TO OPEN UP AND LIFT ENE THIS EVENING. COLD
CLOUD TOPS HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE NE FLANK AHEAD OF LOW OVER S NV AND
NW AZ THIS EVE...WITH FAIRLY LARGE PRECIP SHIELD ON CDC RADAR OVER S
TIER OF STATE...AND MOVING NORTH. THIS WILL MOVE NE OVER SOUTH AND
EASTERN UTAH OVERNIGHT...ONLY GRAZING NW UT. HAVE ADDED CHANCE POPS
TO PROVO ZONE AS LOW CLOUDS AND WEAK RADAR RETURNS MOVED INTO THIS
AREA THIS EVENING. ALSO UPPED THE POPS FOR THE ALTA ZONE TO
LIKELY. HAVE BUMPED THE SNOW NUMBERS IN SW MTNS A BIT AS MAY HAVE A
BIT OF A CONVECTIVE COMPONENT ENHANCE THE PRECIP. OTHERWISE SNOW
ADVISORIES LOOKS GOOD FOR S MTNS AND HIGHER VALLEY ZONES OF S UTAH.
WILL HANG ONTO WIND ADVISORY FOR N WASATCH FRONT. ALTHOUGH WINDS
NOT REACHING ADVSRY YET...WINDS ARE SLOWLY INCREASING...AND SHOULD
HIT ADVSRY BY MORN AS GRADIENT TIGHTENS AND 700 WINDS INCREASE DUE
TO APPROACHING LOW. ADDED MENTION OF WINDS TO SEVERAL N UTAH
ZONES...AND REMOVED MENTION OF FOG DUE TO WINDS AND INCREASED DEWPT
DEPRESSIONS. WINDS SHOULD DIE DOWN FAIRLY QUICKLY DURING THE DAY
WEDNESDAY AS GRADIENT RELAXES. OTHERWISE PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD...WITH
DRYING THURSDAY AS THE LOW REFORMS OVER SO CAL THEN PULLS SOUTH INTO
BAJA.
SLC 1332 CDC 8753
SLC...SNOW ADVISORY TONIGHT/WED SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS AND
SOUTHWEST VALLEYS EXCEPT DIXIE...UTZ014>017-020.
WIND ADVISORY THROUGH WED MORN N WASATCH FRONT...UTZ002.1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong canyon winds blew along portions of the Wasatch Front. The highest gusts reported were 68mph (59kts) at Hill AFB, and 59mph (51kts) on the Bountiful bench.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, February 2001
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: 5276434.