Heavy Snow, N Los Angeles T X N
- When
- March 28, 1:00 AM PST to March 29, 2:00 AM PST
- Where
- N Los Angeles T X N forecast zone
Heavy Snow in California, March 28 to 29, 1998
A Pacific storm brought heavy snow to the mountains of Southern California. At resort levels, snowfall amounts ranged from one foot at Snow Summit to three feet at Mount Baldy.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 LOX wrote it up.
A Pacific storm brought heavy snow to the mountains of Southern California. At resort levels, snowfall amounts ranged from one foot at Snow Summit to three feet at Mount Baldy.
Event by event
3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, N Ventura
- When
- March 28, 1:00 AM PST to March 29, 2:00 AM PST
- Where
- N Ventura forecast zone
Heavy Snow, P C Santa Barbara
- When
- March 28, 1:00 AM PST to March 29, 2:00 AM PST
- Where
- P C Santa Barbara 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
- Flash Flood in Arizona, March 28, 1998
- Heavy Snow and Hail in California, March 28 to 29, 1998
- Tornado in Illinois, March 28, 1998
- Flood and Hail in California, March 28 to 31, 1998
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Michigan, March 28, 1998
- High Wind in Ohio, March 28, 1998
- High Wind in New York, March 28, 1998
- Flash Flood in New York, March 28 to 31, 1998
- Flash Flood in Vermont, March 28 to 31, 1998
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Indiana, March 28, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, March 28, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Montana, March 28 to 29, 1998
More
Every storm in California in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in California, March 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: 5633926, 5633927, 5633928.