Utah storm events
Tornadoes, hurricanes, hail, and severe storms recorded in Utah between 1950 and 2025, sourced from NOAA's Storm Events Database.
11,628
Storm events
144
Tornadoes
0
Hurricanes
248
Deaths
Significant recent events in Utah
Events with deaths, multiple injuries, $1M+ property damage, or EF3+ tornadoes.
The Redwest Music Festival, being held at the Utah State Fairpark, was paused and crowds were evacuated preemptively around 5 p.m. Saturday due to a cold front approaching the area. It is estimated that 60,000 people attended each day of the three day event. The cold front brough…
Two individuals went out on the water at Willard Bay State Park on an inflatable raft during the afternoon of Saturday, August 2. Outflow winds from thunderstorms near the Utah-Idaho border pushed through Willard Bay area around 4:20 p.m. with wind gusts at nearby weather station…
The Forsyth Fire started on Thursday, June 19th, 2025. Initial reports from fire officials state the fire is suspected to have originated as a holdover from lightning in the Pine Valley Mountains. A long stretch of hot, dry, and windy conditions prevailed ahead of the fire's disc…
Perry Police Department was called to Perry Park just before 5 PM Wednesday, June 11 for reports of traumatic injuries due to a large tree branch falling on two individuals. One individual, an 80-year old woman, died on the scene. The other individual, a 28-year old woman, was tr…
A report of a skier who failed to return home by 500 pm MST was received by Summit County Dispatch on the evening of the event 3/7. A search and rescue operation was started that evening, and crews found evidence of a recent slide, but due to reportedly extremely hazardous condit…
A skier and a guide were caught in an avalanche in the East Bowl of upper Silver Fork. The skier triggered the avalanche above the guide who was skiing below. Both were carried by the avalanche. The skier was badly injured, with a broken leg, but survived. The guide had traumatic…
A snowmobiler got caught in an avalanche in the Monte Cristo Snowmobile Area near the Rich and Cache county line. The victim's friend called for help, prompting a multi-agency search in which the victim was found deceased around 6:20 p.m. Monday, February 3. Deputies reported the…
Two boys fell through ice into Glasmann Pond in South Ogden while fishing, approximately around 4:30 pm LST. While one was able to get out, the other was rescued by divers and later passed from the injuries sustained. Temperatures nearby reported from the Ogden-Hinckley Airport A…
A snowboarder died in an avalanche in Silver Fork of Big Cottonwood Canyon.
A man was snowboarding in the Porter Fork area of Millcreek Canyon when he was caught by an avalanche. He was dug from the snow several days later.
At approximately 10:02 pm, a Toyota Prius travelling southbound on I-15 lost control and hit a concrete barrier near milepost 354, eventually coming to rest facing sideways on the interstates shoulder. A male passenger exited the car, while the female passenger remained and opene…
A pickup truck collided head-on with a semitrailer after the driver of the pickup truck lost control on state Route 96. Archived liquid precipitation measurements suggest around 0.2-0.5 had fallen in the area by that point, with National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Cent…
Around 430 p.m., three paddleboarders were near the dock at Quail Creek Reservoir when gusty winds pushed them away from the dock. They were not wearing life vests. Two of the people were able to swim back and reach the shore, but a third person was later found unconscious and un…
A lightning strike capsized a fishing boat with three passengers on board, throwing the passengers into the river, leading to one fatality and two injuries. First responders were called just after midnight local time.
A 38-year-old man drowned Saturday in the waters of the northwest portion of Willard Bay during stormy conditions. This individual attempted to rescue another who went into the water to rescue another who had a life jacket. Nearby wind gusts with an associated outflow boundary ra…
Counties and zones
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Arches (2)
Arches/north La Sals (1)
Bear Lake and Bear River Valley (12)
Beaver (77)
Beaver T X E/iron T Xs Xe (40)
Box Elder (284)
Bryce Canyon Country (8)
C E Summit/x Ne Wasatch/n Duchesne (39)
C Ec Xse Duchesne (11)
C Grand (1)
C Sc Sanpete/c Sevier (19)
C Uintah (2)
C W Box Elder/c W Xe Toole/x W Salt Lake/x Nw Utah (52)
Cache (110)
Cache Valley/utah (61)
Cache Valley/utah Portion (46)
Canyonlands & Natural Bridges (1)
Canyonlands / Natural Bridges (266)
Capitol Reef National Park and Vicinity (2)
Carbon (60)
Castle Country (34)
Castle Country/price/castle/dale/emery (13)
Central Mountains (113)
Central and Southwest Mountains (41)
Daggett (44)
Daggett/n Uintah (9)
Davis (173)
Duchesne (96)
E Wasatch T X Ne/s Wc Duchesne/x Ne San Pete/carbon T Sc/p X Ne X Nw Emery (33)
Eastern Box Elder County (26)
Eastern Juab/millard Counties (11)
Eastern Uinta Basin (369)
Eastern Uinta Mountains (515)
Emery (102)
Emery T Nw X Ne/c E Wayne/p Sc Carbon (6)
Garfield (183)
Glen Canyon Recreation Area/lake Powell (22)
Grand (234)
Grand Flat (1)
Grand Flat and Arches (329)
Great Salt Lake Desert and Mountains (202)
Great Salt Lake Desert and Mountains/wendover/snowville (24)
Iron (109)
Juab (57)
Kane (249)
Kane T X Nw X E/sc Garfield (11)
La Sal & Abajo Mountains (529)
Lower Washington County (11)
Millard (74)
Millard T X E/juab T X E (26)
Morgan (23)
Ne Box Elder T X Ne/w Weber/davis (104)
Ne Garfield/x Sc X Se Wayne/c N San Juan (10)
Northern Wasatch Front (160)
Northern Wasatch Front/brigham City/ogden Bountiful (53)
Nw Cache (43)
P Nc Weber/p C Morgan/p W C Summit/p Sc Wasatch (99)
P Sc Carbon/nw Emery T X Nw (14)
Piute (16)
Rich (29)
Rich/cache T Nw/p E C Weber/most of Morgan/nw Summit/ne Salt Lake/x Ne Box Elder (146)
S Grand (1)
S Uintah/n Grand (5)
Salt Lake (498)
Salt Lake Valley (36)
Salt Lake and Tooele Valleys (169)
Salt Lake and Toole Valleys (51)
San Juan (216)
San Rafael Swell (14)
San Rafael Swell/greene River/hanksville (9)
Sanpete (42)
Sanpete Valley (3)
Sanpete/sevier Valleys (44)
Sc Se San Juan (4)
Sc Washington (21)
Sevier (56)
Sevier Valley (4)
South Central Utah (37)
South Central Utah/kanab/escalante (5)
Southeast Mountains/canyonlands (8)
Southeast Utah (321)
Southeast Utah/blanding (2)
Southern Mountains (117)
Southern Wasatch Front (104)
Southern Wasatch Front/lehi/provo/nephi (33)
Southwest Utah (133)
Southwest Utah/cedar City/milford (19)
Summit (50)
Sw San Juan/x E Kane/se Garfield (3)
Tavaputs Plateau (384)
Tooele (818)
Tooele and Rush Valleys (40)
Uintah (107)
Upper Sevier River Valleys (9)
Utah (298)
Utah Valley (27)
Utah's Dixie and Zion National Park (13)
Utahs Dixie and Zion National Park (44)
W Salt Lake T X W/e Toole T X E (106)
W Summit T Nw/se Salt Lake/wasatch X Sc/e Utah/p X E Juab/x Nw San Pete (162)
W Utah T X Nw/p X E Juab (84)
Wasatch (51)
Wasatch Back (15)
Wasatch Mountain Valleys (79)
Wasatch Mountain Valleys/huntsville/park City/heber (46)
Wasatch Mountains I-80 North (206)
Wasatch Mountains I80 North (61)
Wasatch Mountains South of I-80 (256)
Wasatch Mountains South of I80 (76)
Wasatch Plateau/book Cliffs (120)
Washington (421)
Wayne (189)
Weber (162)
West Central Utah (89)
West Central Utah/delta (13)
Western Canyonlands (4)
Western Juab/millard Counties (11)
Western Uinta Basin (28)
Western Uinta Mountains (132)
Western Unita Basin (15)
Western Unita Mountains (29)
X Nw Kane/xs Xe Iron/n W Washington/nw Wc Garfield/piute/w Wayne/sevier T C/x E Millard/s Sanpete T Sc/x Se Juab/p X Nw Emery/x E Beaver (87)
Zion National Park (2)