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 Jan 5, 10:45 AM MST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 1045 AM MST SUN JAN 5 2003 .SYNOPSIS...A WEAK PACIFIC WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL CROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN UTAH TODAY. STRONG HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL DEVELOP OVER THE REGION FOR FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THE WEEK. .DISCUSSION...UPPER LOW CURRENTLY OVER SW WY HAS BEEN TRACKING ALMOST DUE SOUTH PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. THIS PRETTY MUCH IN LINE WITH MODEL SOLUTIONS OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF RUNS WHICH THEN TAKE THIS FEATURE INTO AZ OVERNIGHT...THEN INTO NRN BAJA MONDAY. FAIRLY BROAD AREA OF LIGHT RAIN/SNOW HAS DEVELOPED AHEAD OF THE LOW THIS MORNING. THE MOST CONCENTRATED PRECIP IS IN THE AREA OF STRONGEST NEAR 700MB COLD ADVECTION UNDERNEATH THE MOST RAPID 500 MB COOLING. THIS COUPLET COULD HOLD TOGETHER AS IT HEADS SOUTH TODAY. SOMEWHAT CONCERNED THAT AREAS OF CNTRL UT ADJACENT TO THE WEST SLOPES OF THE WASATCH RANGE COULD PICK UP MORE THAN JUST A FEW INCHES OF SNOW THIS AFTERNOON. THREAT OF SNOW SHOULD END UP NORTH LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS EASTERLIES/DOWNSLOPING TAKE HOLD. SRN UT SHOULD SEE PRECIP END DURING THE EVENING AS THE UPPER LOW EXITS INTO AND THROUGH NRN AZ. COULD BE LOOKING AT A BORDERLINE HIGH WIND EVENT IN THE WASHINGTON COUNTY CANYONS TONIGHT/EARLY MONDAY. HAVE MADE A FEW ADJUSTMENTS TO THE EARLY MORNING PACKAGE FOR TODAY/TONIGHT. TRENDS BEYOND TONIGHT LOOK GOOD. SLC 810 CDC 430 CONGER .SLC...NONE.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A strong cold front brought high winds to Washington County. The worst hit were the Hurricane and Pintura areas, where shingles blew off roofs and several carports were damaged. Wind gusts reached speeds of 72 mph (63 kts) at White Reef and 70 mph (61 kts) in Ivins.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, January 2003
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: 5327875.