2 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 1, 8:55 AM PST, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.
WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
855 AM PST SAT DEC 1 2001
WINDS HAVE INCREASED OVER WESTERN NV AND NORTHEAST CA WITH GUSTS TO
52 MPH REPORTED AT DOYLE RAWS...RENO AIRPORT...AND 53 MPH FROM A
SPOTTER IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. 12Z MESO-ETA INDICATED 700 MB WINDS
BETWEEN 55 AND 75 KNOTS THROUGH MOST OF THE DAY FROM RENO-TAHOE
NORTHWARD WITH THE SPEEDS PEAKING BETWEEN 18Z AND 21Z. LAMP GUIDANCE
SURFACE WIND AND MESO-ETA 850 MB WINDS ALSO SHOW A MAXIMUM DURING
THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS. THEREFORE THE RENO-TAHOE AND LASSEN-
NORTHERN WASHOE ZONES WERE ALREADY UPDATED FOR AN UPGRADE TO HIGH
WIND WARNING UNTIL 3 PM.
SNOW CONTINUES TO FALL IN THE SNOW ADVISORY AREAS WITH THE WESTERN
NV VALLEYS SHADOWED OUT AT THIS TIME. SOME PRECIP IS SPILLING OVER
INTO WEST RENO FOOTHILLS BUT MOST OF THE STEADY ACCUMULATING SNOW
WILL REMAIN IN THE ADVISORY AREAS TODAY.
.REV...SNOW ADVISORY NVZ002-CAZ072-CAZ071 ABOVE 5000 FEET TODAY
HIGH WIND WARNING CAZ070-CAZ071-CAZ072-NVZ002-NVZ003-NVZ005
THROUGH 3 PM
WIND ADVISORY CAZ073 TODAY
WINTER STORM WATCH CAZ071 SUNDAY
WINTER STORM WATCH NVZ002-CAZ072-CAZ073 SUNDAY AND SUNDAY
NIGHT
HIGH WIND WATCH NVZ001-NVZ003-NVZ005-CAZ070 SUNDAY.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO, NV
225 PM PST SAT DEC 1 2001
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0945 AM STEAD NV 56 MPH NON TSTM WIND GUST
12/01/01 WASHOE STEAD AWOS GUSTS
49KTSREPORTED BY OTHER
0247 PM 4NW TRUCKEE CA HEAVY SNOWFALL
12/01/01 NEVADA 6 INCHES SNOWFALL AT 6500
FEETREPORTED BY SPOTTERS
0300 PM TAHOE CITY CA HEAVY SNOWFALL
12/01/01 PLACER 4 INCHES SNOWFALL REPORTED
BY CO-OP OBSERVERSThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Several reports of heavy snow in Incline Village. One reported 12 inches in 12 hours at 7623 feet and another reported 30 inches in 24 hours at 7600 feet.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nevada in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, December 2001
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: 5275647, 5275646.