Snow accumulations of 12 to 18 inches at 5000 feet elevation, and 24 to 36 inches at even higher elevations, accompanied by strong winds, caused power outages and damaged one home in Amador county slightly. S.
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.
The episode as NWS STO wrote it up.
Snow accumulations of 12 to 18 inches at 5000 feet elevation, and 24 to 36 inches at even higher elevations, accompanied by strong winds, caused power outages and damaged one home in Amador county slightly. The heavy snows also temporarily closed U.S. Route 50 and Interstate 80.
2 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in California, February 1998
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: 5671376, 5671377.