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 28, 3:15 PM MST, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 315 PM MST THU FEB 28 2002 .SYNOPSIS...A RECORD COLD AIRMASS WILL PUSH SOUTH THROUGH UTAH TONIGHT AND BE REINFORECED WITH EVEN MORE COLD AIR FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. .DISCUSSION...SURFACE BOUNDARY IN CENTRAL UT AT 3 PM AND PRECIPITATION BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER THE NORTH. COLD TROUGH TONIGHT WILL BRING SNOW TO THE NORTH...BUT WITH LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS. SOME THREAT OF SHOWERS OVER SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS AND ALONG I-15 CORRIDOR...BUT AGAIN VERY LIGHT AMOUNTS. A SECOND SHORT WAVE AND COLD PUSH FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY....WITH ANOTHER PERIOD OF LIGHT SNOW POSSIBLE IN THE NORTH. VERY TIGHT SURFACE GRADIENT AND STRONG 700 MB COLD ADVECTION OVER SW UT TONIGHT INDICATES HIGH WIND WARNING CRITERIA WILL BE MET PER LOCAL STUDY SO HAVE ISSUED NPW FOR ZONE 19 WITH GUSTS TO 70 MPH LIKELY. MAIN DIFFERENCE IN 12Z RUNS WAS THAT AVN TURNS FLOW ALOFT EASTERLY FRIDAY AND KEEPS AN EASTERLY COMPONENT THROUGH SATURDAY WHILE ETA MAINTAINS A MORE NNW ORIENTATION. AVN WOULD SUGGEST CANYON WIND EVENT SATURDAY MORNING ALONG WASATCH FRONT AND CONTINUATION OF ZONE 19 WIND EVENT THROUGH SATURDAY. WILL HOLD OFF ON THIS SCENARIO FOR NOW AND EXAMINE SUBSEQUENT MODEL RUNS. FINAL FORECAST PROBLEM IS WHETHER GREAT SALT LAKE WILL ENHANCE PRECIPITATION. MESO-ETA SUGGESTS DREADED LAKE EFFECT WHILE 4KM MM5 RUNS BASED ON ETA AND AVN DO NOT. HAVE GONE WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF AN INCH OR LESS BUT SUBSEQUENT SHIFTS WILL HAVE TO WATCH THE LAKE VERY CLOSELY. SLC 7332 CDC 3111 DUNN .SLC...HIGH WIND WARNING WASHINGTON COUNTY TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...UTZ019.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds developed across Utah's Dixie in the wake of a fast moving cold front. Recorded wind gusts included 64 mph (56 kts) at Badger Spring and 60 mph (52 kts) at White Reef.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, February 2002
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: 5324281.