Heavy Snow in California, February 6 to 10, 1998

Name: Heavy Snow in California, February 6 to 10, 1998
Start: 1998-02-06T06:00
End: 1998-02-10T06:00
Location: California

February 6 to 10, 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 6, 6:00 AM PST to February 10, 6:00 AM PST
Where: Southern Sierra Nevada-Yosemite National Park to Kings Canyon forecast zone

12 inches of snow in the 1st 24 hours ending by 0600 on the 7th...an additional 18-24" by the 8th...then another 8" by the morning of 9th...and then an additional 8" by the morning of the 10th at Mammoth Mountain (Over 4 feet in 4 days). Badger Pass in Yosemite National Park received 6" of new snow in the early morning hours of the 6th with an additional 12" of new snow in the early morning hours of the 7th. At Fish Camp in Mariposa County at the 5000-foot level, a spotter reported over 30" of snow fell primarily on calendar day 2/7/98.

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: 5638680.