Heavy Snow, Lander/Eureka
- When
- March 6, 8:00 PM PST to March 7, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Lander/Eureka forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Nevada, March 6 to 7, 1998
A strong winter storm dropped locally heavy snow over parts of Northeast and East Central Nevada. 12 hour snowfall totals ending at 8:00 am PST included: 10 inches at Austin, 8 inches at Ruby Lake Wildlife Refuge and Jiggs, 6 inches at Spring Creek, 5 inches at Ruth, Ely, Diamond Valley, Emigrant Pass (20 W Elko) and Eureka, 4 inches at Lund and the Reese River Valley (20 SW of Austin), and 3…
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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 strong winter storm dropped locally heavy snow over parts of Northeast and East Central Nevada. 12 hour snowfall totals ending at 8:00 am PST included: 10 inches at Austin, 8 inches at Ruby Lake Wildlife Refuge and Jiggs, 6 inches at Spring Creek, 5 inches at Ruth, Ely, Diamond Valley, Emigrant Pass (20 W Elko) and Eureka, 4 inches at Lund and the Reese River Valley (20 SW of Austin), and 3 inches at Battle Mountain.
Event by event
4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, White Pine
- When
- March 6, 8:00 PM PST to March 7, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- White Pine forecast zone
Heavy Snow, Southeast Elko
- When
- March 6, 8:00 PM PST to March 7, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Southeast Elko forecast zone
Heavy Snow, Southwest and South Central Elko
- When
- March 6, 8:00 PM PST to March 7, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Southwest and South Central Elko 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
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, March 6 to 7, 1998
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, March 6 to 7, 1998
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, March 6 to 8, 1998
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, March 6 to 7, 1998
- Winter Storm in Colorado, March 6 to 7, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, March 6 to 7, 1998
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, March 6 to 7, 1998
- Frost and Freeze in California, March 6, 1998
- Winter Storm in Arizona, March 6 to 7, 1998
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 6 to 7, 1998
- Heavy Snow in New Mexico, March 6 to 7, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, March 6, 1998
More
Every storm in Nevada in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5630264, 5630265, 5630266, 5630267.