Heavy Snow, Humboldt
- When
- January 23, 8:00 AM PST to 3:30 PM PST
- Where
- Humboldt forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
Heavy Snow in Nevada, January 23 to 24, 1999
A slow moving, strong winter storm pounded much of Northern and East Central Nevada with heavy over a two day period. The storm first hit Northwest and Northeast Nevada on Saturday and then moved south over East Central Nevada, dropping more heavy snow.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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 slow moving, strong winter storm pounded much of Northern and East Central Nevada with heavy over a two day period. The storm first hit Northwest and Northeast Nevada on Saturday and then moved south over East Central Nevada, dropping more heavy snow. 12 hour snowfall amounts were as follows: 14 inches in Diamond Valley, 10 inches in Kingston, 9 inches at both the Gibbs Ranch (40 NE of Elko) and Eureka, 8 inches at Austin, 7 inches at Elko, Wells and Spring Creek, 6 inches at Ely, Sheldon Antelope Refuge (90 NW of Winnemucca), 5 inches at Beowawe, and 4 inches at Battle Mountain.
Event by event
9 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Lander/Eureka
- When
- January 23, 10:00 AM PST to 4:00 PM PST
- Where
- Lander/Eureka forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Heavy Snow, Lander/Eureka
- When
- January 23, 10:00 AM PST to 5:00 PM PST
- Where
- Lander/Eureka forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
Heavy Snow, Northern Elko
- When
- January 23, 12:00 PM PST to 9:00 PM PST
- Where
- Northern Elko forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
Heavy Snow, Southwest and South Central Elko
- When
- January 23, 12:00 PM PST to 9:00 PM PST
- Where
- Southwest and South Central Elko forecast zone
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
Heavy Snow, Southeast Elko
- When
- January 23, 12:00 PM PST to 9:00 PM PST
- Where
- Southeast Elko forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Heavy Snow, Lander/Eureka
- When
- January 24, 4:00 AM PST to 4:00 PM PST
- Where
- Lander/Eureka forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
Heavy Snow, White Pine
- When
- January 24, 6:00 AM PST to 6:00 PM PST
- Where
- White Pine forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
Heavy Snow, Southwest and South Central Elko
- When
- January 24, 12:00 PM PST to 9:00 PM PST
- Where
- Southwest and South Central Elko forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
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The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, January 23, 1999
- Avalanche in Colorado, January 23, 1999
- Flood in Kentucky, January 23, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in New York, January 23 to 28, 1999
- Flood in Ohio, January 23 to 27, 1999
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Virginia, January 23, 1999
- Flood in Ohio, January 23 to 24, 1999
- Flash Flood in Ohio, January 23, 1999
- Flash Flood in Ohio, January 23, 1999
- Flood in Ohio, January 23 to 26, 1999
- Heavy Snow in California, January 23 to 24, 1999
- Flood and Damaging Wind in Georgia, January 23, 1999
More
Every storm in Nevada in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, January 1999
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: 5679994, 5679995, 5679996, 5679997, 5679998, 5679999, 5680001, 5680000, 5680002.