4 high wind, 4 heavy snow, 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 Apr 5, 7:54 AM MST, 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
854 AM MDT WED APR 5 2006
.SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE WEST COAST EARLY THIS
MORNING WILL MOVE THROUGH UTAH LATER TODAY. THE TROUGH WILL EXIT
UTAH EARLY THURSDAY...AND WILL BE FOLLOWED BY HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT
FOR THE END OF THE WEEK.
&&
.DISCUSSION...COLD FRONT MOVING FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST ACROSS
THE AREA TODAY. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40-50 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 70
MPH HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE SALT FLATS AND PROMPTED A HIGH WIND
WARNING THERE...SURROUNDED BY A WIND ADVISORY FOR MOST WESTERN AND
SOUTHERN VALLEYS. PRESSURE GRADIENT FORECAST TO DECREASE
DRAMATICALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON. ALSO A DRY BOUNDARY LAYER AND
CONVECTIVE SHOWERS WILL RESULT IN MICROBURSTS THROUGH THE DAY.
MOUNTAIN WARNINGS WILL CONTINUE AS THEY ARE AND NO FURTHER UPDATES
EXPECTED THIS MORNING.
&&
.HYDRO...HYDRO NOT AS MUCH OF CONCERN NOW AS EARLIER ANTICIPATED.
PRECIPITATION WAS LIGHT OVERNIGHT IN SOUTHWEST UTAH. RAIN HAS
INCREASED THIS MORNING BUT WITH LOWERING SNOW LEVELS AND SHORT
DURATION. ALSO SOME MINOR FLOW INCREASES EXPECTED FOR SOME NORTHERN
RIVERS SUCH AS THE WEBER AND LITTLE BEAR FROM WARM OVERNIGHT
TEMPERATURES RESULTING IN SNOWMELT.
&&
.AVIATION...COLD FRONT IS APPROACHING RAPIDLY FROM THE SOUTH AND
SHOULD ARRIVE WITHIN THE 17Z TO 19Z TIMEFRAME. THUNDERSTORM
POTENTIAL IS MORE ELEVATED THAN YESTERDAY ESPECIALLY AHEAD OF THE
COLD FRONT. SHOWERS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD WITH A 30% CHANCE
FOR THUNDERSTORMS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM
16Z THROUGH 20Z. WIND GUSTS COULD BE A PROBLEM TODAY WITH WIND
GUSTS FROM SHOWERS THAT POSSIBLY EXCEED 50 KNOTS.
&&
.SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
UT...WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 5 PM THURSDAY FOR UTZ007>010.
WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL NOON THURSDAY FOR UTZ017-018.
WIND ADVISORY THROUGH 4 PM UTZ003-004-014>016-019-020.
HIGH WIND WARNING THRU 4 PM UTZ005.
WY...NONE.
&&
PUBLIC/HYDRO...GIBSON
AVIATION...HALLHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 845 AM MDT WED APR 5 2006 UTZ001>006-011>016-019>021-WYZ021-061300- CACHE VALLEY/UTAH PORTION-CASTLE COUNTRY-GLEN CANYON RECREATION AREA/LAKE POWELL-GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT AND MOUNTAINS-NORTHERN WASATCH FRONT-SALT LAKE AND TOOELE VALLEYS-SAN RAFAEL SWELL- SANPETE/SEVIER VALLEYS-SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH-SOUTHERN WASATCH FRONT- SOUTHWEST UTAH-SOUTHWEST WYOMING-UTAHS DIXIE AND ZION NATIONAL PARK- WASATCH MOUNTAIN VALLEYS-WEST CENTRAL UTAH-WESTERN UINTA BASIN- 845 AM MDT WED APR 5 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE VALLEYS OF UTAH AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST WYOMING. .DAY ONE... TODAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ALONG WITH GUSTY SOUTH WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE OVER THE SOUTHWEST VALLEYS THIS MORNING. A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 4 PM FOR THE SALT FLATS OF NORTHWEST UTAH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A DEEP COLD TROUGH WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT...AND REMAIN THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY. WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SNOW WILL ACCOMPANY THIS TROUGH...WITH ACCUMULATING SNOWS POSSIBLE AT SOME OF THE HIGHER NORTHERN VALLEY LOCATIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. UTZ007>010-017-018-061300- CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS-HENRY MOUNTAINS-WASATCH MOUNTAINS I- 80 NORTH-WASATCH MOUNTAINS SOUTH OF I-80-WASATCH PLATEAU/BOOK CLIFFS- WESTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS- 700 AM MDT WED APR 5 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MOUNTAINS OF UTAH. .DAY ONE... TODAY RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS WILL CHANGE TO ALL SNOW BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. PERIODS OF HEAVY SNOW ARE POSSIBLE DOWN SOUTH THIS MORNING...THEN OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS LATER TODAY. STRONG RIDGETOP WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THE SNOW TODAY. SEE THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER STATEMENT (SLCWSWSLC) FOR DETAILS ON THIS STORM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY HEAVY SNOW WILL OCCUR OVER THE MOUNTAINS TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY...THEN OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON. THE HEAVIEST SNOWS WILL OCCUR OVER THE WASATCH RANGE TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. REFER TO THE CURRENT WINTER WEATHER STATEMENT FOR DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
4 high wind, 4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Dugway I-80 sensor
Signal Peak
70+ mph winds...gust to 83 at Jupiter peak
Larb Hollow
18" in 18h at Liberty
13" in 12h, 21 total at Paradise
10" in 18h in South Ogden
13" in 12h at Lakefork Basin SNOTEL
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, April 2006
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: 5502484, 5502482, 5502480, 5502483, 5507141, 5507139, 5507140, 5502481.