A spring-like storm brought 8-13 inches of wet snow to the mountains of Northern Utah.
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The episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
A spring-like storm brought 8-13 inches of wet snow to the mountains of Northern Utah.
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 Mar 9, 10:55 AM MST, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1055 AM MST FRI MAR 9 2001 SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LOW WILL DROP SOUTHWARD THROUGH CALIFORNIA TODAY AND TONIGHT...WITH A MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW OVER UTAH. THE LOW WILL TRACK INTO ARIZONA ON SATURDAY...WITH THE FLOW OVER UTAH BECOMING EASTERLY BUT REMAINING MOIST. DISCUSSION...MOIST AND UNSTABLE SOUTHERLY FLOW IS GENERATING FAIRLY WIDESPREAD PRECIP OVER THE NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER THE SOUTHWEST. A WEAK SHORT WAVE THAT WAS WEST OF BAJA GOT PICKED UP IN THE CIRCULATION AHEAD OF THE DEVELOPING LOW AND THIS HAS REALLY HELPED TO INCREASE THE MOISTURE OVER THE REGION. MOST OF THE SWRN SHOWERS HAVE NOT BEEN SHOWING UP VERY WELL ON KICX 88D AND NOW AN AREA OF CHAFF OVER WESTERN IRON COUNTY IS FURTHER CONFUSING THE ISSUE. HOWEVER, I DO EXPECT SHOWERS TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE OVER MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS AND CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT AS THE UPPER LOW OVER CA DROPS SOUTH. PRECIP SHOULD DECREASE OVER THE NORTH ONCE THE FLOW STARTS TO BECOME EASTERLY BUT THE AIRMASS OVER THE STATE IS FORECAST TO STAY MOIST SO SCATTERED OR BETTER COVERAGE IS PROBABLY OK. IT APPEARS THAT ADVISORY LEVEL SNOW IS POSSIBLE FOR THE SOUTHERN MTNS AND WILL PROBABLY ISSUE THIS WITH THE AFTERNOON PACKAGE. THE CANYON WIND EVENT FOR THE WASATCH FRONT STILL LOOKS LIKE IT WILL DEVELOP BUT PROBABLY NOT UNTIL LATER SAT MORNING...AND THEN END SAT EVE. WATCH STILL LOOKS OK FOR NOW, BUT WILL CONSIDER KEEPING IT JUST A WATCH WITH THIS AFTERNOON'S FORECASTS DUE TO LATER ONSET. HAVE UPDATED TO INCLUDE POSSIBILITY OF FREEZING RAIN FOR THE COLDER NORTHERN VALLEYS, AS FREEZING LEVELS ARE FAIRLY HIGH BUT SOME OF THE VALLEY BOTTOMS STILL HAVE TRAPPED COLD AIR. MOST OF THIS SHOULD MIX OUT THIS AFTERNOON WITH VALLEY TEMPS CREEPING ABOVE FREEZING. SLC 564 CDC 676 WILENSKYM .SLC...HIGH WIND WATCH NORTHERN WASATCH FRONT...UTZ002
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, March 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: 5276435, 5276436.