Heavy Snow, White Pine
- When
- February 24, 8:00 PM PST to February 25, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- White Pine forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.442, -114.902 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Nevada, February 24 to 25, 2003
Heavy snow was reported across portions of White Pine County. Amounts include; 12 inches at Great Basin National Park, 10 inches on the benches south of Ely, and 6 inches at Lund.
Where it happened
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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 LKN wrote it up.
Heavy snow was reported across portions of White Pine County. Amounts include; 12 inches at Great Basin National Park, 10 inches on the benches south of Ely, and 6 inches at Lund.
What forecasters said that day
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 Elko, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 24, 2:00 PM PST, 6 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 2:00 PM PST, 6 hours before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 200 PM PST MON FEB 24 2003 .SYNOPSIS...A HEAVY SNOW WARNING FOR WHITE PINE COUNTY AND A SNOW ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT. PERIODS OF SNOW CAN BE EXPECTED...PARTICULARLY ACROSS EAST CENTRAL NEVADA AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM REMAINS OVER NORTHERN NEVADA FOR MOST OF THIS WEEK. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THIS WEEKEND. .SHORT TERM...UPPER TROF REMAINS OVER CWA FOR MOST OF THE WEEK EXCEPT FOR A BRIEF BREAK ON WED. PROBLEM FOR TONIGHT WILL BE HOW MUCH SNOW WILL DEVELOP IN OVERRUNNING PATTERN AS MOISTURE FROM PAC LOW MOVES ACROSS COLD AMS. MESOETA CONTS TO PUSH HIGH NUMBERS WITH A HALF INCH OR MORE FALLING OVER ZN 35 BY 12Z TUE. WILL STICK WITH HEAVY SNOW WARNING...AND ISSUE SNOW ADVISORY FOR ERN PORTIONS OF ZN 37. BOTH ETA AND AVN INDICATE AMS DRYING FROM N ON TUE...THIS MAY BE A LITTLE FAST...BUT TREND LOOKS GOOD. CYCLONIC FLOW WEAKENS THRU TUE NIGHT. WED MORNING SHOULD BE COLDEST WITH OVERNIGHT CLEARING. AVN SHOWS ANOTHER VORT CENTER MOVINGS ACROSS NRN NV ON THU. WITH LITTLE MODIFICATION IN COLD AMS...ASSOC MOISTURE SHOULD BRING ANOTHER CHC OF SNOW TO NORTHEAST NV. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN BELOW NORMAL. LITTLE RECOVERY IS EXPECTED WED DUE TO COLD MORNING LOWS. .EXTENDED...MODELS GENERALLY AGREE TO DIG YET ANOTHER S/WV DOWN ALONG THE WEST COAST IN NLY FLOW FRI WITH BROAD TROUGH/CYCLONIC FLOW ALREADY IN PLACE OVER NV. SEVERAL VORT LOBES IN THE TROUGH SWING THROUGH THE CWA FRI FOR CHC POPS. WILL EXPAND CHC POPS INTO SAT AS WELL AS OFFSHORE S/WV PROGGED TO ROTATE AROUND THE BASE OF THE TROUGH...FOR A CONTINUATION OF CYCLONIC FLOW W/ EMBEDDED VORT FEATURES. NLY FLOW CONTINUES THROUGH MONDAY WITH S/WV RIDGING ON SUNDAY FOLLOWED BY A CLIPPER TYPE S/WV ON MONDAY. WILL KEEP BOTH DAYS DRY FOR NOW AS OVERLAND TRAJECTORY OF MON S/WV IS UNFAVORABLE FOR PRECIP. WILL KEEP TEMPS NEAR NORMAL FRI/SAT WITH ALL FROZEN PRECIP W/ 7H TEMPS -6 TO -10C. BRIEF WARMING SUNDAY BEFORE COOLING AGAIN MON BEHIND S/WV. HOENISCH .EKO...HEAVY SNOW WARNING TONIGHT FOR ZN 35...WHITE PINE COUNTY AND SNOW ADVISORY TONIGHT FOR ZN 37...MAINLY SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY EYSSAUTIER
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 24, 5:00 AM PST, 15 hours before
NVZ030>037-251400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 500 AM PST MON FEB 24 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL NEVADA .DAY ONE... A STRONG PACIFIC STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN NEVADA TONIGHT BRINGING HEAVY SNOW TO PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL NEVADA. A HEAVY SNOW WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WHITE PINE COUNTY...SEE WWUS45 KLKN RNOWSWLKN FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SNOW IS EXPECTED TO WIND DOWN OVER WHITE PINE COUNTY TUESDAY MORNING WITH ONLY MINOR ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. WALLMANN
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Flash Flood and Heavy Snow in California, February 24 to 27, 2003
- Winter Storm in Texas, February 24 to 27, 2003
- Winter Storm in Texas, February 24, 2003
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, February 24 to 25, 2003
- Winter Storm in Arkansas, February 24 to 25, 2003
- Winter Storm in Texas, February 24 to 26, 2003
- Winter Storm in Oklahoma, February 24, 2003
- Winter Storm in Arizona, February 24 to 26, 2003
- High Surf in Hawaii, February 24 to 26, 2003
- Heavy Snow in Utah, February 24 to 26, 2003
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, February 24 to 28, 2003
- Cold in Montana, February 24, 2003
More
Every storm in Nevada in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, February 2003
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: 5328012.