Heavy Snow, Spring Mountains
- When
- January 12, 10:00 AM PST to January 13, 8:00 PM PST
- Where
- Spring Mountains forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 37.129, -115.743 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Nevada, January 12 to 13, 1997
A powerful winter storm blanketed the Spring Mountains west of Las Vegas with deep snow. Kyle Canyon received 14 inches accumulation in 12 hours and had a storm total of 22 inches.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 VEF wrote it up.
A powerful winter storm blanketed the Spring Mountains west of Las Vegas with deep snow. Kyle Canyon received 14 inches accumulation in 12 hours and had a storm total of 22 inches. The ski area in Lee Canyon reported a total of 30 to 36 inches of snowfall. State routes 157 and 158 were closed for several hours as a result.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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 Storm in Arizona, January 12 to 14, 1997
- Ice Storm in Louisiana, January 12 to 14, 1997
- Ice Storm in Texas, January 12 to 13, 1997
- Ice Storm in Texas, January 12 to 14, 1997
- Cold in Illinois, January 12, 1997
- Winter Weather in Texas, January 12 to 13, 1997
- Winter Storm in California, January 12 to 13, 1997
- Ice Storm in Louisiana, January 12 to 15, 1997
- Winter Storm in California, January 12 to 13, 1997
- Ice Storm in Texas, January 12 to 15, 1997
- Cold in Nebraska, January 12, 1997
- Cold in Wyoming, January 12 to 13, 1997
More
Every storm in Nevada in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, January 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: 5599357.