Heavy Snow, Western Unita Mountains
- When
- June 24, 12:00 PM MST to 6:00 PM MST
- Where
- Western Unita Mountains forecast zone
- Reported by
- PARK/FOREST SERVICE
Heavy Snow in Utah, June 24, 2003
An unseasonably cold storm system dumped a thick blanket of snow across the higher elevations of Northern Utah, catching some campers in the High Uintas by surprise. Some of the snow amounts included 6-10 inches in the High Uintas above 7000 feet, 6 inches at Alta and Brighton, and 3 inches at Solitude.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
An unseasonably cold storm system dumped a thick blanket of snow across the higher elevations of Northern Utah, catching some campers in the High Uintas by surprise. Some of the snow amounts included 6-10 inches in the High Uintas above 7000 feet, 6 inches at Alta and Brighton, and 3 inches at Solitude.
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 Jun 24, 8:46 AM MST, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 8:46 AM MST, 3 hours 14 minutes before
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
946 AM MDT TUE JUN 24 2003
.SYNOPSIS...A COLD AND WET PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL REMAIN OVER
NORTHERN AND WESTERN UTAH TODAY WITH A COOLER BUT DRY AIRMASS WILL
SPREADING OVER SOUTHEASTERN UTAH. WARMER AND DRIER CONDITIONS WILL
BEGIN ON WEDNESDAY AS THE STORM SYSTEM MOVES NORTHEAST.
.DISCUSSION...COLD SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA TODAY AND
TONIGHT. COLD FRONT ACROSS SOUTHEAST UTAH WITH JET OVERHEAD. EXPECT
THIS IS WHERE THE STRONGEST STORMS TO OCCUR TODAY. HOWEVER...MOISTURE
IS LIMITED. OUTSIDE OF EXTREME SOUTHERN UTAH...THE AIR MASS IS MOIST
AND UNSTABLE. SO...EXPECT ANOTHER DAY OF SCATTERED TO WIDESPREAD
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WILL INCREASE POPS AND CLOUD COVER OVER
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN UTAH. SNOW LEVELS HAVE LOWERED TO AROUND 8500
FEET WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF 3-5 INCHES SINCE YESTERDAY MORNING. DO
NOT EXPECT MUCH ACCUMULATION DURING THE DAY EXCEPT ABOVE 9000 FEET.
TROUGH AXIS TO MOVE INTO WESTERN COLORADO AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH THE
FORECAST AREA STILL UNDER A CYCLONIC NORTHWEST FLOW. ENOUGH MOISTURE
AND INSTABILITY TO REMAIN OVER NORTHEAST UTAH/SOUTHWEST WYOMING FOR
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.
SLC 732 CDC 110 NELSON
.SLC...RED FLAG WARNING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE
HUMIDITY TODAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN UTAH.Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 6:11 AM MST, 5 hours 49 minutes before
IDZ024-025-UTZ001>021-WYZ021-251300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 515 AM MDT TUE JUN 24 2003 CORRECTED WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF UTAH...EXTREME SOUTHEAST IDAHO AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST WYOMING .DAY ONE... TODAY SEVERE FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR TODAY OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN UTAH. SOUTH WINDS OF 20-35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 35-50 MPH WILL DEVELOP AND COMBINE WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY DROPPING INTO THE 8-15% RANGE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE. WCJIN-WYSW
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Wasatch Mountains South of I80
- When
- June 24, 12:00 PM MST to 6:00 PM MST
- Where
- Wasatch Mountains South of I80 forecast zone
- Reported by
- PARK/FOREST SERVICE
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.
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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: 5380323, 5380324.