Utah, 2003

Heavy Snow in Utah, October 30 to 31, 2003

October 30 to 31, 2003 · NWS SLC · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

Heavy snow fell along the Wasatch Front and Tooele Valley, dropping a nice blanket of the white stuff. Some amounts included 6 inches in Tooele, 5 inches in Stansbury Park and Upper Millcreek, 4 inches in South Ogden and 3 inches in East Layton.

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.

Heavy snow fell along the Wasatch Front and Tooele Valley, dropping a nice blanket of the white stuff. Some amounts included 6 inches in Tooele, 5 inches in Stansbury Park and Upper Millcreek, 4 inches in South Ogden and 3 inches in East Layton.

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 Oct 30, 8:30 PM MST, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 30, 8:30 PM MST, 30 minutes before
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Event by event

2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Northern Wasatch Front/Brigham City/Ogden Bountiful

When
October 30, 9:00 PM MST to October 31, 12:00 PM MST
Where
Northern Wasatch Front/Brigham City/Ogden Bountiful forecast zone
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC

Heavy Snow, Salt Lake and Toole Valleys

When
October 30, 9:00 PM MST to October 31, 12:00 PM MST
Where
Salt Lake and Toole Valleys 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

More

Every storm in Utah in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, October 2003

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5380221, 5380222.