Heavy Snow, Greater Lake Tahoe Area
- When
- March 16, 10:00 PM PST to March 17, 4:00 PM PST
- Where
- Greater Lake Tahoe Area forecast zone
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.935, -120.458 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in California, March 16 to 17, 2006
A winter storm deposited over a foot of snow in the central Sierra Nevada.Storm total snowfall amounts:Alpine Meadows Ski Resort (8600 ft.) 17 inches (7000 ft.) 11 inchesBoreal Ski Resort 15 inchesTruckee 12 inchesSquaw Valley Ski Resort (8200 ft.) 10 inches (6200 ft.) 6 inchesNorthstar-at-Tahoe…
Where it happened
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- Hail
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
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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 REV wrote it up.
A winter storm deposited over a foot of snow in the central Sierra Nevada.Storm total snowfall amounts:Alpine Meadows Ski Resort (8600 ft.) 17 inches (7000 ft.) 11 inchesBoreal Ski Resort 15 inchesTruckee 12 inchesSquaw Valley Ski Resort (8200 ft.) 10 inches (6200 ft.) 6 inchesNorthstar-at-Tahoe Ski Resort (8300 ft.) 10 inches (6900 ft.) 5 inchesKirkwood Ski Resort 10 inchesSierra-at-Tahoe Ski Resort 10 inchesHomewood Ski Resort 8 inchesTahoe City 6 inches
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
- High Wind in Oregon, March 16, 2006
- Winter Weather in Iowa, March 16, 2006
- Wildfire in Arkansas, March 16 to 17, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, March 16, 2006
- Winter Storm in Hawaii, March 16 to 17, 2006
- High Wind in Alaska, March 16, 2006
- Flash Flood in Hawaii, March 16, 2006
- Wildfire in Maryland, March 16, 2006
- Heavy Snow in California, March 16 to 17, 2006
More
Every storm in California in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in California, March 2006
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: 5493462.