Heavy Snow in California, February 14 to 17, 1998

Name: Heavy Snow in California, February 14 to 17, 1998
Start: 1998-02-14T01:00
End: 1998-02-17T06:00
Location: California

February 14 to 17, 1998 · NWS HNX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Southern Sierra Nevada-Yosemite National Park to Kings Canyon

When: February 14, 1:00 AM PST to February 17, 6:00 AM PST
Where: Southern Sierra Nevada-Yosemite National Park to Kings Canyon forecast zone

Again in the upper elevations of the Southern Sierra Nevada represented by Mammoth Mountain...8" of snow fell by 0600 on the 14th...another 16" by 0600 on the 15th...and 17" by 0600 on the 17th. Badger Pass in Mariposa County received 11" of new snow overnight by the morning of the 15th.

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

Every storm in California in 1998 Every state in 1998 This day in weather history Warnings in California, February 1998

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: 5639091.