Heavy Snow, Frontier
- When
- January 31, 8:30 AM CST to 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Frontier forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 40.530, -100.394 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Nebraska, January 31, 2002
A powerful winter storm moved out of the Rockies into the Southern Plains early on the 31st. Snow started early in the morning and continued till late afternoon as a deformation zone developed across Eastern Frontier and Southeastern Custer Counties.
Where it happened
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.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 LBF wrote it up.
A powerful winter storm moved out of the Rockies into the Southern Plains early on the 31st. Snow started early in the morning and continued till late afternoon as a deformation zone developed across Eastern Frontier and Southeastern Custer Counties. Accumulations varied widely especially across Custer and Frontier Counties. In Southern portions of Frontier County...6 inches fell at Red Willow Dam...and 6.5 inches fell at Medicine Creek Dam in extreme Southeastern Frontier County. Across Southeastern Custer County...6 inches fell at Mason City...while only an inch fell at Arnold in Northwestern Custer County. Storm totals for other locations included: 5 inches at Comstock...3 inches at Taylor and Burwell...4 inches at Ericson...1.6 inches at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in North Platte...and an inch at Stapleton.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Custer
- When
- January 31, 9:00 AM CST to 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Custer forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 41.394, -99.726 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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
- Avalanche in Utah, January 31, 2002
- Flash Flood in Illinois, January 31, 2002
- Ice Storm and Heavy Snow in New York, January 31, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, January 31, 2002
- Winter Storm in New York, January 31, 2002
- Winter Storm in Vermont, January 31, 2002
- Excessive Heat in West Virginia, January 31, 2002
- Winter Storm in Vermont, January 31, 2002
- Winter Storm in Vermont, January 31, 2002
- Ice Storm in Indiana, January 31, 2002
- Damaging Wind and High Wind in Arkansas, January 31, 2002
- Winter Storm in New York, January 31, 2002
More
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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: 5277279, 5277280.