Heavy Snow, Lander/Eureka
- When
- February 22, 2:00 PM PST
- Where
- Lander/Eureka forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Nevada, February 22, 1998
A winter storm dropped locally heavy snow over parts of East Central Nevada. 6 hour snowfall totals ending at 2:00 pm PST included: 5 inches at Diamond Valley, 4 inches at both Cherry Creek and Lages Junction, and 3 inches at both Eureka and Austin.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 winter storm dropped locally heavy snow over parts of East Central Nevada. 6 hour snowfall totals ending at 2:00 pm PST included: 5 inches at Diamond Valley, 4 inches at both Cherry Creek and Lages Junction, and 3 inches at both Eureka and Austin.
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, White Pine
- When
- February 22, 2:00 PM PST
- Where
- White Pine 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
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More
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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: 5630258, 5630259.