Tornado Strikes Salt Lake City

Date: August 11, 1999 • Location: Washington, United States

A tornado struck downtown Salt Lake City, damaging 120 homes and injuring over 100 people.

On August 11, 1999, a rare and strong F2 tornado struck Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was among the most notable tornadoes to hit west of the Great Plains in the 20th century and the only recorded tornado to hit in Utah that resulted in a fatality. This was the sixth significant tornado in Utah since June 1963, the second widest in the state's history, and one of only two F2 tornadoes to have hit Salt Lake County since 1950.