A winter storm brought snow across northern Utah, with heavy snow accumulations across Davis County and northern valleys of the Wasatch Mountains.
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 episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
A winter storm brought snow across northern Utah, with heavy snow accumulations across Davis County and northern valleys of the Wasatch Mountains.
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 18, 9:15 PM MST, 6 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT 915 PM MST Mon Feb 18 2019 .SYNOPSIS...A storm system crossing the area tonight will exit the area by early Tuesday. A new and potent storm system will impact mainly the southern two-thirds of the state beginning late Wednesday night and continuing into Thursday night. && .SHORT TERM (THROUGH 00Z FRIDAY)... The mid-level circulation center embedded in the upper trough over extreme southern Utah will continue to weaken as the main trough continues east across the remainder of the state overnight. Lingering snow showers earlier this evening have been decreasing quite rapidly in areal coverage/intensity, so allowed all of the remaining advisories to expired as scheduled at 03z. Up north low-level cold advection across the GSL has sparked some lake enhanced snow showers south of the lake. These showers will likely persist for a couple more hours and generate an inch or two of snow before dissipating late this evening. Water vapor imagery shows one last trailing shortwave moving south behind the trough axis across northwest Wyoming/eastern Idaho at mid-evening. This feature could regenerate snow showers across far northern Utah/southwest Wyoming as it slips through the area late tonight/early Tuesday. Shortwave ridging will develop across the region late Tuesday through Wednesday ahead of the next slowly developing storm system moving south out of western Canada. An upper low will develop across the Pacific Northwest by Wednesday night, then continue south into the western Great Basin Thursday. Increasing low-level warm advection underneath increasingly cold mid-level air will likely produce enough thermally-driven lift for early precip across northwest Utah Wednesday morning. Precip will continue to expand south as the storm approaches the Pacific Northwest through early Wednesday evening. Increasing synoptic-scale lift associated with the now developed upper low will result in widespread moderate to locally heavy precip across the southern two-thirds of the state late Wednesday night through Thursday. Will likely see winter weather highlights being issued to address this new and fairly potent storm system. Northern Utah/southwest Wyoming will also see precip, though most of this after Wednesday will be loosely organized showery precip heading into Thursday. .PREVIOUS LONG TERM (AFTER 00Z FRIDAY)... The trough of note will continue to provide active weather across southern and eventually central Utah through Friday prior to shifting downstream. Trough evolution will be occurring during that time however, with a shift from a vertically stacked system to more of a transitory and filling one. This evolution will begin Thursday night, but trend more so Friday with a jet max rounding the base and intensifying downstream over Colorado. Expecting areal coverage of snowfall to expand northeast into central and northeastern portions come Friday with this evolution, this as signals point to the remnant H7 low lifting northeast beneath the mid level shear axis. Have adjusted PoPs up for much of the eastern third of the area to account for this. Breadth of forcing will be waning within the filling environment, but does look to remain modest enough for widespread snowfall into early Friday (especially Castle Country and adjacent mtns), prior to turning more showery by late day with the axis shifting east. Continue to see a reprieve from active weather through much of Saturday, but global suite has trended towards a more amplified solution regarding the next northern branch trough, which in past runs has been progged to remain largely north of the area. Being towards days 6-7, and with run to run inconsistencies regarding amplification (or lack there of), remain skeptical of any one outcome at this time. Do however have slight chance/chance PoPs focused over the northern half of the area as yet another trough passage is possible. && .AVIATION...Lake enhanced snow showers should remain just to the west of the KSLC terminal with ceilings hovering near 5000 feet on the periphery of the showers through around 05z. A second weather disturbance moving south across northern Utah could bring light showers back to the vicinity of the terminal beginning around 11z-13z. Prevailing north winds are expected through the day Tuesday, though these winds will generally be on the light side by late tonight. && .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...None. WY...None. && CONGER/MERRILL For more information from NOAA's National Weather Service visit... http://weather.gov/saltlakecity For frequently asked questions about the Area Forecast Discussion visit... http://weather.gov/saltlakecity/general/afd_faqs.php
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT 327 PM MST Mon Feb 18 2019 UTZ001>016-019>021-517-518-WYZ021-191400- Cache Valley/Utah Portion-Northern Wasatch Front- Salt Lake and Tooele Valleys-Southern Wasatch Front- Great Salt Lake Desert and Mountains-Wasatch Mountain Valleys- Wasatch Mountains I-80 North-Wasatch Mountains South of I-80- Western Uinta Mountains-Wasatch Plateau/Book Cliffs- Western Uinta Basin-Castle Country-San Rafael Swell- Sanpete/Sevier Valleys-West Central Utah-Southwest Utah- Utahs Dixie and Zion National Park-South Central Utah- Glen Canyon Recreation Area/Lake Powell-Central Mountains- Southern Mountains-Southwest Wyoming- 327 PM MST Mon Feb 18 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the western two thirds of Utah and southwest Wyoming. .DAY ONE...Tonight Areas of snow will continue across the area this evening. The greatest amounts and impacts will be across southern Utah, east of I-15, where accumulating snowfall will cause Winter Driving Conditions. I-70 may also be impacted. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday Light snow developing across northern into central Utah late Tuesday night and Wednesday has the potential to significantly impact travel, as even light accumulations may lead to Winter Driving Conditions due to recent cold temperatures. The next winter storm is expected to affect mainly central and southern Utah Wednesday night into Friday, bringing the potential for another rare and significant snowfall to the far southern Utah valleys including Dixie. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to standard operating procedures. For more information from NOAA/s National Weather Service visit... http://weather.gov/saltlakecity For information on potential road travel impacts visit... http://www.udottraffic.utah.gov/roadweatherforecast.aspx
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Areas of Davis County received heavy snowfall, with storm total snowfall reports including 9 inches in South Ogden, 8 inches in North Ogden, 5 inches at Hill Air Force Base and Fruit Heights, and 4 inches on the Northeast Ogden Bench and in Clearfield.
The northern valleys of the Wasatch Mountains received heavy snowfall, with 16 inches of snow falling in Liberty.
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