Heavy Snow, White Pine
- When
- April 6, 7:00 AM PST
- Where
- White Pine forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Nevada, April 6, 1998
A localized winter-type storm dropped heavy snow over parts of White Pine County of East Central Nevada. 12 hour snowfall totals ending at 7:00 am PST included: 7 inches in the City of Ely, 5 inches at both Ely airport and Ruth, and 4 inches at McGill.
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS LKN wrote it up.
A localized winter-type storm dropped heavy snow over parts of White Pine County of East Central Nevada. 12 hour snowfall totals ending at 7:00 am PST included: 7 inches in the City of Ely, 5 inches at both Ely airport and Ruth, and 4 inches at McGill.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Tornadoes and Flooding in Iowa, April 6, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Kansas, April 6, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 6 to 7, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, April 6, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, April 6, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 6, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 6, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, April 6 to 7, 1998
- Hail in Texas, April 6, 1998
- Hail in Minnesota, April 6, 1998
- Hail in Kansas, April 6, 1998
- Dust Devil in Virginia, April 6, 1998
More
Every storm in Nevada in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, April 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5633558.