Heavy Snow, Lander/Eureka
- When
- December 8, 7:00 AM PST
- Where
- Lander/Eureka forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Nevada, December 8, 1997
A winter storm dropped locally heavy snow over parts of Northeast and East Central Nevada. 12 hour snowfall totals ending at 7:00 am included: 5 inches in downtown Ely, 5 inches at Ruth, 4 inches in Eureka, 3 inches at Ely airport and Spring Creek, and 2 inches at both Wildhorse Reservoir and Owyhee.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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 LKN wrote it up.
A winter storm dropped locally heavy snow over parts of Northeast and East Central Nevada. 12 hour snowfall totals ending at 7:00 am included: 5 inches in downtown Ely, 5 inches at Ruth, 4 inches in Eureka, 3 inches at Ely airport and Spring Creek, and 2 inches at both Wildhorse Reservoir and Owyhee.
Event by event
4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, White Pine
- When
- December 8, 7:00 AM PST
- Where
- White Pine forecast zone
Heavy Snow, Northern Elko
- When
- December 8, 7:00 AM PST
- Where
- Northern Elko forecast zone
Heavy Snow, Southwest and South Central Elko
- When
- December 8, 7:00 AM PST
- Where
- Southwest and South Central Elko forecast zone
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 Storm in Wyoming, December 8 to 11, 1997
- Winter Weather in Nebraska, December 8 to 9, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, December 8 to 10, 1997
- Tornado in California, December 8, 1997
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, December 8 to 9, 1997
- Winter Storm in Missouri, December 8, 1997
- Winter Weather in Illinois, December 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, December 8 to 9, 1997
- Winter Storm in Colorado, December 8 to 10, 1997
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, December 8 to 9, 1997
- Winter Weather in South Carolina, December 8 to 9, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Kansas, December 8, 1997
More
Every storm in Nevada in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5625699, 5626221, 5626222, 5626223.