Heavy Snow, West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada
- When
- January 15, 1:00 AM PST to January 16, 5:00 AM PST
- Where
- West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
Heavy Snow in California, January 15 to 16, 2000
High country ski resorts reported as much as three feet of new snow. Highway 88 was temporarily closed from 3 1/2 miles east of Silver Lake to Kirkwood.
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 STO wrote it up.
High country ski resorts reported as much as three feet of new snow. Highway 88 was temporarily closed from 3 1/2 miles east of Silver Lake to Kirkwood.
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
- Blizzard and Ice Storm in Alaska, January 15 to 19, 2000
- High Wind and Strong Wind in Puerto Rico, January 15 to 17, 2000
- Strong Wind in U.S. Virgin Islands, January 15 to 17, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Puerto Rico, January 15 to 16, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Washington, January 15 to 16, 2000
- Heavy Rain in California, January 15 to 16, 2000
- Heavy Snow in California, January 15, 2000
- Winter Storm in California, January 15 to 16, 2000
- Heavy Snow in California, January 15 to 16, 2000
- High Wind in California, January 15 to 16, 2000
- Heavy Snow in California, January 15 to 16, 2000
More
Every storm in California in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in California, January 2000
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: 5131450.