Heavy Snow, Lander/Eureka
- When
- January 19, 4:00 AM PST
- Where
- Lander/Eureka forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Nevada, January 19, 1998
A rapidly moving strong cold front produced localized heavy thundersnow over parts of East Central Nevada. In the city of Eureka, 6 inches of snow accumulated in a 3 hour period ending at 4:00 am.
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 rapidly moving strong cold front produced localized heavy thundersnow over parts of East Central Nevada. In the city of Eureka, 6 inches of snow accumulated in a 3 hour period ending at 4:00 am.
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
- Winter Storm in North Carolina, January 19, 1998
- Winter Storm in Utah, January 19 to 20, 1998
- Heavy Snow in North Carolina, January 19, 1998
- Winter Weather in South Carolina, January 19 to 29, 1998
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, January 19, 1998
- Winter Storm in Colorado, January 19 to 20, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, January 19 to 20, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, January 19, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 19 to 20, 1998
- Flooding in North Carolina, January 19 to 31, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, January 19, 1998
More
Every storm in Nevada in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, January 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: 5630250.