Heavy Snow, Greater Lake Tahoe Area
- When
- January 30, 10:00 AM PST to 8:00 PM PST
- Where
- Greater Lake Tahoe Area forecast zone
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.789, -119.640 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Nevada, January 30, 2006
Storm total snowfall amounts:Mt.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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
- 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 fast-moving winter storm brought 1 to 2 feet of snow to the Sierra Nevada and the Carson Range.Storm total snowfall amounts:Mt. Rose Ski Resort 14 inchesDiamond Peak Ski Resort (8500 ft) 12 inches
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 Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 30, 3:25 AM PST, 6 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 3:25 AM PST, 6 hours 35 minutes before
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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
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, January 30, 2006
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, January 30, 2006
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, January 30 to 31, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, January 30 to 31, 2006
- Winter Weather in Colorado, January 30 to 31, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, January 30, 2006
- Hail in Mississippi, January 30, 2006
- High Wind in Montana, January 30, 2006
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, January 30, 2006
- Blizzard in Alaska, January 30, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 30, 2006
- Storm Surge in Maine, January 30, 2006
More
Every storm in Nevada in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, January 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: 5487583.