Heavy Snow, Ne Box Elder T X Ne/W Weber/Davis
- When
- April 17, 6:00 PM MST to April 20, 6:00 PM MST
- Where
- Ne Box Elder T X Ne/W Weber/Davis forecast zone
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
Heavy Snow in Utah, April 17 to 20, 2002
Cold and unsettled weather parked over Northern Utah for a 3-day period, dumping much needed heavy snowfall in the mountains, and some pretty hefty amounts in the valleys as well. Snow totals included 38 inches at Alta, 36 inches in Farmington Canyon, 28 inches at Snowbird, and 18 inches in Park City.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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.
Cold and unsettled weather parked over Northern Utah for a 3-day period, dumping much needed heavy snowfall in the mountains, and some pretty hefty amounts in the valleys as well. Snow totals included 38 inches at Alta, 36 inches in Farmington Canyon, 28 inches at Snowbird, and 18 inches in Park City. In the lower elevations, the Tooele Bench reported 19 inches, with 14 inches in the town of Tooele, 13 inches in Kanosh, 12 inches on the Bountiful Bench, 10 inches in East Layton and the Ogden Bench, 9 inches in South Ogden, 8 inches in Spanish Fork, and 7 inches in Laketown and Springville.
What forecasters said that day
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 Apr 17, 4:05 PM MST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 4:05 PM MST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
505 PM MDT WED APR 17 2002
.SYNOPSIS...A COLD UPPER LOW WILL LINGER OVER THE WEST INTO THIS
WEEKEND.
.DISCUSSION...BAROCLINIC BAND HAS HELD TOGETHER NICELY AS IT DRIFTED
SOUTHWARD TODAY AND HAVE EXTENDED SNOW ADVISORIES THRU TONIGHT FOR
UNDER THIS BAND. IT SHOULD DISSIPATE LATER TONIGHT AS THE JET
SUPPORT WANES AND FRONT CONTINUES ON SOUTH. COLD AIR INSTABILITY
SHOWERS WILL BE THE RULE FOR THE NORTH TONIGHT...AND EACH DAY THRU
FRIDAY. THESE WILL BE MOST ACTIVE IN THE AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS
BUT SOME WEAK UPPER SUPPORT MAY KEEP A FEW GOING OVERNIGHT AND INTO
THE MORNINGS. COLD AIR ALOFT NEVER REALLY GETS INTO THE SOUTH SO
THEY WILL REMAIN ON THE DRY SIDE AFTER TONIGHT. WINDS SUFFICIENT
THRU THIS EVE TO KEEP AN ADVISORY GOING FOR THE SOUTHEAST PORTIONS
BUT THEY DECREASE ONCE THE FRONT PASSES...AND WILL DECOUPLE SOMEWHAT
LATE THIS EVENING...EVEN AHEAD OF THE FRONT.
LOW FINALLY MOVES OUT ON SUN WITH ANOTHER WEAKER TROF SLIDING PAST
IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW EARLY NEXT WEEK.
SLC 6555 CDC 7--2 WILENSKY
.SLC...WIND ADVISORY SOUTHEASTERN UTAH THIS EVE...UTZ013-018-020-021
SNOW ADVISORY PART OF NRN MTNS...AND CENTRAL VALLEYS
TONIGHT...UTZ014-015-008>010-017.Event by event
7 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Nw Cache
- When
- April 17, 6:00 PM MST to April 20, 6:00 PM MST
- Where
- Nw Cache forecast zone
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
Heavy Snow, P Nc Weber/P C Morgan/P W C Summit/P Sc Wasatch
- When
- April 17, 6:00 PM MST to April 20, 6:00 PM MST
- Where
- P Nc Weber/P C Morgan/P W C Summit/P Sc Wasatch forecast zone
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
Heavy Snow, Rich/Cache T Nw/P E C Weber/Most of Morgan/Nw Summit/Ne Salt Lake/X Ne Box Elder
- When
- April 17, 6:00 PM MST to April 20, 6:00 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 Salt Lake T X W/E Toole T X E
- When
- April 17, 6:00 PM MST to April 20, 6:00 PM MST
- Where
- W Salt Lake T X W/E Toole T X E 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
- April 17, 6:00 PM MST to April 20, 6:00 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
Heavy Snow, W Utah T X Nw/P X E Juab
- When
- April 17, 6:00 PM MST to April 20, 9:00 AM MST
- Where
- W Utah T X Nw/P X E Juab 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Tennessee, April 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 17, 2002
- High Wind in Iowa, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, April 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 17, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, April 17, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, April 17, 2002
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: 5324465, 5324466, 5324467, 5324468, 5324469, 5324581, 5324582.