Heavy Snow, Cheyenne Foothills
- When
- April 9, 8:00 PM MST to April 10, 11:00 AM MST
- Where
- Cheyenne Foothills forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Wyoming, April 9 to 10, 1997
Heavy snow fell over the Snowy Range as well as over and east of the southern Laramie Range. Cheyenne received 11 inches while the Laramie Range received generally 10 to 12 inches.
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 CYS wrote it up.
Heavy snow fell over the Snowy Range as well as over and east of the southern Laramie Range. Cheyenne received 11 inches while the Laramie Range received generally 10 to 12 inches. A localized band of heavier snow remained nearly stationary across northern Laramie County and southern Goshen which resulted in an accumulation of 14 inches at Albin. Torrington which is just north of the band of heavier snow received 8 inches.
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Laramie Range
- When
- April 9, 8:00 PM MST to April 10, 11:00 AM MST
- Where
- Laramie Range 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
- Cold in Pennsylvania, April 9 to 11, 1997
- Cold in Pennsylvania, April 9 to 11, 1997
- Flood in Minnesota, April 9 to 12, 1997
- Cold in Virginia, April 9, 1997
- Cold in Virginia, April 9, 1997
- Cold in North Carolina, April 9, 1997
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, April 9 to 11, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Utah, April 9 to 10, 1997
- Cold in New Jersey, April 9 to 11, 1997
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, April 9 to 10, 1997
- Cold in Kansas, April 9 to 13, 1997
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, April 9 to 10, 1997
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, April 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: 5592503, 5592504.