Heavy Snow, Preston
- When
- December 6, 8:00 PM EST to December 7, 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Preston forecast zone
Nine inches of snow was reported at Canaan Valley State Park Resort.
Heavy Snow in West Virginia, December 6 to 7, 1997
Strong, moisture-laiden westerly winds up the Allegheny Plateau led to heavy snowfall amounts in the higher elevations of the northern West Virginia Mountains.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 PBZ wrote it up.
Strong, moisture-laiden westerly winds up the Allegheny Plateau led to heavy snowfall amounts in the higher elevations of the northern West Virginia Mountains.
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Tucker
- When
- December 6, 8:00 PM EST to December 7, 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Tucker forecast zone
Eight inches of snow was reported at Terra Alta.
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
- Flash Flood and Flooding in California, December 6, 1997
- Heavy Snow in New York, December 6, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Arizona, December 6 to 7, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, December 6 to 7, 1997
- Heavy Snow in New York, December 6 to 7, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, December 6, 1997
- Dense Fog in Washington, December 6 to 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Maryland, December 6 to 7, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, December 6, 1997
More
Every storm in West Virginia in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in West Virginia, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5623309, 5623310.