Heavy Snow, E Fresno/Madera T Sw/Mariposa/Se Tuolumne
- When
- December 5, 6:00 PM PST to December 6, 6:00 AM PST
- Where
- E Fresno/Madera T Sw/Mariposa/Se Tuolumne forecast zone
12 inches of snow at 8000 feet...6" snow by 0500 PST at 7000 feet.
Heavy Snow in California, December 5 to 6, 1997
Other snow amounts included 3 inches at Castaic on the Grapevine (Interstate-5) by Saturday morning the 6th.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS HNX wrote it up.
Other snow amounts included 3 inches at Castaic on the Grapevine (Interstate-5) by Saturday morning the 6th.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Weather in California, December 5 to 7, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, December 5 to 7, 1997
- Flood in Florida, December 5 to 6, 1997
- Heavy Snow in New York, December 5 to 6, 1997
- Winter Weather in Vermont, December 5 to 6, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Vermont, December 5 to 6, 1997
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in North Carolina, December 5 to 6, 1997
- Winter Weather in New York, December 5 to 6, 1997
- Winter Storm in Maine, December 5 to 7, 1997
- Heavy Snow in West Virginia, December 5 to 6, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, December 5 to 7, 1997
- Heavy Snow in North Carolina, December 5 to 6, 1997
More
Every storm in California in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in California, December 1997
Sources
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5626861.