Every storm NOAA has recorded in Utah since January 1996 — wind, hail, snow and flooding — searchable by county, type and year. 11,426 events. Each one links back to its original NOAA record.
Most people land here trying to find the date a storm hit their house. Filter to your county, then match the date to when you first noticed damage.
18 events in W Summit T Nw/Se Salt Lake/Wasatch X Sc/E Utah/P X E Juab/X Nw San Pete during 2002
Clear all filtersAlta reported 16 inches of fresh powder in 24 hours.
NOAA record 5324789 ↗Two snowboarders were buried and killed by a massive avalanche which swept down a steep slope in upper Big Cottonwood Canyon. The two were part of a large group of snowboarders traveling through the backcountry near the Brighton Ski Resort. Most of the group had traversed across an open slope when a large section of snow...6 to 8 feet deep...broke away above the final two boarders to cross the slo
NOAA record 5324351 ↗An avalanche swept down a slope above the town of Alta, coming to rest against the Peruvian Lodge. The slide buried the parking lot in 16 feet of snow and damaged several cars. There were no injuries.
NOAA record 5324350 ↗Mother Nature once again was kind to the Winter Olympics, bringing a mostly dry cold front into the Wasatch Front...but not until after the closing ceremonies. The front brought gusty winds and a little snow to the valleys, with heavier snow in the Cottonwood Canyons. Alta picked up 14 more inches of powder, with Snowbird and Solitude tallying 7 inches.
NOAA record 5324280 ↗A surge of Pacific moisture brought heavy, wet snow to portions of the Wasatch Mountains, with mainly rain in the valleys. The heaviest snow fell in the Cottonwood Canyons, where Alta picked up 17 inches, Snowbird 13 inches, and Solitude 12 inches.
NOAA record 5324232 ↗Avalanches closed the roads in Big Cottonwood and American Fork Canyons. The slide in Big Cottonwood Canyon covered the road with debris up to 10 feet deep. In American Fork Canyon, multiple slides covered the road up to 5 feet deep, closing the road for several days.
NOAA record 5324152 ↗Every entry comes from the NOAA / NCEI Storm Events Database, the federal record of severe weather in the United States. We reproduce it here filtered to Utah and made searchable — we do not edit, add to, or interpret the records. Where NOAA lists a wind speed in knots we show it in miles per hour; everything else is verbatim.
Locations are NOAA's own county and National Weather Service forecast-zone names, which is why you will see both Salt Lake and Wasatch Mountains South of I-80. A storm not listed here was not necessarily absent — it means NOAA has no recorded report for it, which is common for isolated hail.
11,426 events · 1996–2026 · last updated August 26, 2026. Free to use and cite — a link back is appreciated but not required.
Maintained by West Peak Roofing, a roofing company in Highland, Utah. We built this because homeowners kept asking us what date their storm hit.
