Another storm brought more snow to Utah's Ski Resorts, with the heaviest snow across the south again. Brian Head reported 23 inches of fresh powder.
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The episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
Another storm brought more snow to Utah's Ski Resorts, with the heaviest snow across the south again. Brian Head reported 23 inches of fresh powder. Up north, Snowbird received 14 inches, Alta 11 inches, and Brighton picked up 6 inches.
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 Jan 29, 7:24 AM MST, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED SYNOPSIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UTAH 305 AM MST MON JAN 29 2001 SYNOPSIS...A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL REACH WESTERN UTAH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE STATE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY. WIDESPREAD SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED THROUGH TUESDAY...THEN TAPERING OFF TUESDAY NIGHT. A COLD NORTHERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL FOLLOW FOR WEDNESDAY DISCUSSION...PACIFIC TROUGH NOW REACHING THE COAST WITH SURFACE COLD FRONT INLAND ACROSS WRN WA THROUGH NRN CA. MODELS FROM THE 00Z RUN HAVE PICKED UP THE PACE A BIT...BRING THE SURFACE FRONT INTO THE SLC AREA BY LATE AFTERNOON. THE UPPER TROUGH WILL BE CLOSE BEHIND... CROSSING THE STATE OVERNIGHT. FOR TUESDAY THE FLOW TURNS MORE NORTHERLY IN RESPONSE TO RIDGING OVER THE ERN PACIFIC. THE AIRMASS OVER NRN UT MAY BE MORE UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AS THE MID-LEVEL COLD POOL PROGGED TO RUN A BIT AHEAD OF THE LOW-LEVEL COOLING. INSTABILITY ALONG THE FRONT WITH SOLID COLD ADVECTION BEHIND SHOULD BRING HIGH PROBABILITY OF PCPN TO NRN/CNTRL UTAH TONIGHT. CYCLONIC N-NW FLOW ALOFT TUESDAY ALONG WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE SHOULD KEEP THINGS GOING AT LEAST DURING THE DAY. THE AIRMASS BY THIS TIME IS QUITE COLD. THE TEMP PROFILE REMAINS UNSTABLE ONLY UP TO AROUND 650 MB...SO NOT LOOKING FOR HEAVY PCPN OUTSIDE OF A FEW OROGRAPHICALLY FAVORED AREAS. CAN'T RULE OUT SOME LAKE-ENHANCED SHOWERS INTO TUESDAY NIGHT...BUT EVEN THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD DIE OFF BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. UPPER RIDGE THAT BUILDS OVER THE ERN PACIFIC TUESDAY TAKES A BEATING FROM THE FAST WESTERLIES. THE RIDGE DOES GET BEATEN DOWN...BUT SHOULD KEEP THE WESTERLY JET AXIS WELL NORTH OF THE STATE. THINGS DO CHANGE A BIT TOWARDS THE WEEKEND AS SOME AMPLIFICATION OF THE CNTRL PACIFIC PATTERN BUCKLES THE WESTERLIES DOWN THROUGH UTAH BY FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY. WILL PROBABLY SEE SOME PCPN AT LEAST ON SATURDAY...AND MAYBE THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY. SLC 477 CDC 025 CONGER .SLC...NONE.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
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, January 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: 5276413, 5276414.